Research Shows Women Would Sacrifice Almost Anything But Chocolate For Blogging

Ok, I like to blog too but come on ladies!!  A study done on 6000 women by BlogHer shows that 36.2 million women are activiely part of the blogosphere.  15.1 million are writing, and 21.1 million are reading. 

Holy crap.

But it gets better.  According to this study, many women bloggers are so keen on blogging they say they would be willing to give something up in order to keep it up.  Examples are:

55% would give up alcohol

50% would give up their PDAs

42% would give up their i-Pod

43% would give up reading the newspaper or magazines

only 20% would give up chocolate

The other numbers show that women spend less time doing things like reading newspapers and magazines and watching television due to spending more time in front of their computers but that doesn't surprise me.  What does shock me is that these women would give up some integral parts of their lives so they can blog!!  PDAs and i-Pods? 

More than half of the group surveyed said they consider blogs to be a reliable source of info and that blogs are influential in their purchasing decisions.  I definitely believe in the latter.  If I didn't, I wouldn't be contributing tons of free samples to bloggers I consider to be "relevant."  But as a source of news, well, I take what I read with a grain of salt.

Don't get me wrong.  I am definitely a fan of blogging.  I love that fellow mommy-bloggers have recently been recognized by major mainstream media and I adore how much blogging has done for my store alone.  But these statistics are truly eyebrow raising!

And for the record, I wouldn't give up chocolate for anything... 

Comments

[Amy]

haha!! Too cute!