The MTV Generation is old news. What about the IM generation? Or, the Texting generation? The E-mailing Generation? The Blogging/Linkblogging Generation seems okay.
The Guardian has done a story on the probabale death of handwriting in this age of keyboard warriors.
And, now Wired has done a story on the same idea. It says,
... there’s the havoc wrought on spelling and punctuation by all this casual communication.
I think Information Addiction is the real issue. The over-abundance of information has shortened our attention span and that in turn is affecting our capability to write in a coherent and structured manner. That also happens of you blog 10-15 times a day. You just rant and rewrite most of the times.
One consequence of our information addiction, in these times of social news sites such as Digg, is our tendency to gloss over the serious news and just look at the fun and ‘gadgety’ kind of news. How do you explain the almost absence of news and opinion on the Muslim Cartoons issue on sites like Digg?
As the Wired article says, there is something wrong with our levels of literacy.
