You know...
Very few kids in this day and age have anything valuable, interesting, or even intelligent to say. And yet, my Facebook news feed is quite constantly filled with the status posts of my adolescent peers...
Don't get me wrong, occasionally, they crack me up... But more often than not, they make me "smh" (gag). They're rude. Or disrespectful. Or completely ignorant. Or just plain useless. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the people are useless. They might not even be all that ignorant. And the fact is, only about 1% of them would ever have the guts to be that disrespectful in public, or to straight to someone's face...
They just don't have filters. What they do have, is 24/7 access to advertising their every opinion, feeling, mood swing, or meal... (I mean seriously, I really don't want to know what you had for dinner, or how it made you feel)
Don't get my wrong, I'm not an advocate for filtering the masses. But I am an advocate for respect, and intelligence. Or, like... PROPER GRAMMAR? Even just an attempt?? I mean, I know, we all make typos and mistakes. I'm no grammarian and I can't spell to save my life. But if I'm going to type something up that people will se, I take the time to spell check. I mean for god's sake, google's right there.
Seriously, the internet is the perfect place to share intelligent ideas. You can literally spend an infinite amount of time ruminating on the concept you're trying to get across. It's not so easy in real life. In real time, conversing with real people, you actually have to be pretty intelligent to... well... sound intelligent. Very often, I think about what I want to say before I speak, and it still doesn't come out as pretty as it could. But with google and online thesauruses at my finger tips, just look at the pompous crap I can spout? I mean seriously people. Can our generation at least start striving towards SEEMING intelligent? Repeat after me: google is my friend. Google helps me spell. Google makes me seem smart.
I mean, just fake it till you make it people...
