Focus Groups/ Primary Research

The focus groups were over a 10 minutes time period,where i gave my questions to a friend and wrote down the results on the questions i had written.

My questions and answers;

What age do you think blogs are suitable for?
The results showed that blogs were suitable for people in secondary school, 12/13 year olds, Year 8 and 15 year olds. The results varied through ages because of personal preference, using it in schools or different types.

What type of blogs interest you?Why?
The results showed that picture blogs, T.v blogs- Games and technical help.It is also used for photgraphy and music.

What websites do you use to create blogs?Why?
The most popular websites used, were tumblr, blogger and wordpress and these were because the formats were easy to use and have the funnest elements.

How do you promote blogs?why?
The ways that i found you could promote blogs were social network websites like facebook and twitter as they have the most people to interract with socially and allow you to link blogs to them which gives promotion for both the sites.

What effect do you think blogs have on other social websites?
The results show that as the years go on blogs could take over other websites, or there could be one specific blog site instead of all these different as more get increasingly popular such as tumblr.

Where do you think blogs will be in the next 10 years?
The results showed that it is believed that blogs will be more school based, or could even transform technology wise to talking base or merge into skype. on the negative people might not be interested n skype in the near future if something bigger and better emerges.

When did you first discover blogs?
The results showed that the years were 2008/2009 and present year 2010 as blogs have become more personal and have started to attract all different types of people through topics, and social reasons.

The focus groups, helped me find out different views on how blogs are used, the ages they are used from and the types of blogs that are used in day to day life.I will take this information into account as the answers i recieved were relevant and needed to carry out my research into blogs.