Member Statistics

Since every blog does a statistics post now and then, I decided to share some of the information about our members (for any privacy nuts wondering, the information you provide when registering is saved on surveymonkey - I'm not about to reveal the darkest pages of your diary, just a few facts!):

• When this post was written, we had 61 registered members.
• The most common age is 17 years old (23% of all members), but the average actually works out at 16.2 years. Unless you specifically asked to have your age changed, or posted about a birthday in the last few days, the age depicted below reflects the member's age at the time of registration.

Our members come from a wide range of countries, cultures and backgrounds. The most common location amongst members is the USA (32.3%). The most unusual countries are Holland, Hungary, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Malaysia, The Philippines and UAE, each of which have just one!

The most common "tags" are Creative Writing (50%), Humor (48%), Ranting (44%), Book Reviewing (39%) and Music (35%). The least common are Exchange Student (1%), Theater (3%), Politics (4%) and Cookery (4%).

The most common category is Variety (40%), followed by Personal Life (32.7%), Book Reviewing (18.2%) and then Arts/Hobbies (9.1%), however this may be slightly incorrect as surveymonkey did not record the category of members registered before 01/01/2013.

The most common traffic sources were The Written Word (Hadiyah's Blog) which brought us 556 views, Google, which brought 310 views, and Yandex.ru (some sort of search engine?) which brought 66. For some reason, a particularly revolting website has a sentence in common with one of our posts, and drew a bit of unwelcome attention... Most common search terms were "teenage blogs" and similar sources.

Surprisingly, we have 0 members living in Russia or France...

The most viewed post on this blog is Guest Posters Wanted. If anyone spends their days staring longingly at that post, but is yet to send in a guest post, feel very welcome to do so!. The next most popular post was The Teenage Blogger Award (I can see why people clicked on this - why wouldn't you want an award just for being awesome?).

A fact which may or may not surprise you is that guys are greatly outnumbered by girls in our community (ratio; 1:6 - yes, I am a math nerd at times!). Do fewer teenage boys blog, or do they tend to be less social and unlikely to register? Please comment if you have any opinions on this!

New Member: Unhelpful Teen

"A humor blog for teenagers - possibly unhelpful life tips. It covers a few topics, and you probably won't gain anything from this blog except a few laughs :)"
 - Callum, 16, Scotland

I highly recommend this blog, because it teaches you how to survive a zombie apocalypse, be weird in a supermarket, and win the hunger games. Definitely not your run-of-the-mill blog! 

New Member: Cerclicious - The Official Blog of a Wishful Teenage Writer

The newest member is Cercalicious (14) from Hong Kong. Her blog is very colourful and covers everything you could be interested in, so make sure to take a look!

"I'm an avid teen writer, with a passion to ramble on about beauty, food, homework and more. Ever since I was young, I’ve had a passion for writing. I am constantly looking for new ways to pursue a writing career, and I thought, maybe a blog would be a start. So here I am! I know there are thousands of people who want to be professional writers, and it’s really hard to be successful, but I hope you can spread the word around, and make a young girl’s dream come true. At Cercalicious, you can read about everything - there's recipes, sample essays, beauty tutorials, reviews and so much more!"

Awesome post by Cercalicious on "Glocalisation" of McDonalds

New Member: Hungarian Student

Our newest member is Tigi (17) from Hungary.

She only started blogging on Sunday and plans to discuss the Hungarian education system and other issues affecting her.. Very interesting if you like learning about other countries and are looking for a new blog to follow!

"My blog is about the Hungarian educational system and everything in connection with it: society, politics, art and science, free time activities, future plans, friends. The posts are based on my own experiences, and I may write about everything in connection with me -- but as a high school student most of the things that influence me are linked to education."

Unrelated note : Japanese Students are so lucky!

New Members 7/June

Hi everyone,

I haven't been online in the past few days as I am busy sitting exams. I won't be online at all next week, so do not take offense if your message is unanswered. I'm on a brief break at the moment and decided to quickly update you all on the new members:

• wondering psycho 
  WP, India
  
  Story of my life..can be your's too.

•  The Life of Teenage Girl 
  Bailey, 15, USA
   
  I blog about my love life (I use the word love with great precaution), social life, and academic life. 

Also, could anyone who filled in their e-mail address instead of their blog URL please re-register?

Happy blogging!

:) 

New Member: Waltz With Life

"I sometimes have interesting (read: odd) ideas about daily life. Sometimes I write about things not many others think about. I think that Waltz With Life is borderline philosophy, some humour and 100% random occurrences in my life. (About my life: just wait till it gets to winter. Then I will rant.) I don't know how much of this makes sense... then again, I don't know whether the blog in itself does."
 - Perenelle, 15, Canada (The Cold Place)

Unrelated graphic. How many of you have ever seen a raccoon?