Originally posted by: Sphexi
Originally posted by: JLGatsby
Kids make "act" stupider today than of past generations, but they're actually a lot more intelligent, mostly because of two reasons.
1.) Mental programming. The electronic age has increase people's intelligence significantly. Using electronics, computers, and other things, have increased the compacity of people's minds, particularly younger people. Gadgets have given young people better programmed minds.
2.) The Internet. More access to information = more knowledge. Kids know more today because they have easier access to the information. Even myself, I cannot begin to tell you how much I've learned from the Internet. I leave some people speechless with the amount of knowledge I have. 95% of it I learned using the internet.
Even using this forum is a perfect of example of increased social skills and better access to information.
Find an old person. Ask them to write a letter and then spell check it. They will misspell even the most common words. Why? They didn't spend their youth on Internet forums and writing email to their friends. That's not to say kids don't always use proper grammar and spelling, as I'm sure a few idiots on this forum will nitpick a few grammatical errors on my post here, but the facts remain that kids are overall, more intelligent, far more.
Make fun of Generation Y all you'd like, but this is most intelligent generation ever in the history of the world. That is a fact. Not the best behaving, but most intelligent, that is a fact.
I know lots of old people. My parents are old, so are my grandparents. They all have excellent spelling and grammar. Playing video games may cause you to think more, and to think in creative ways, but that doesn't directly relate to intelligence. Yeah, there may be a higher percentage of intelligent kids these days, but the ones that don't fit into that category are doing worse and worse things, things that my parents wouldn't even have thought of when they were young. Hell, some of the things these kids get away with I wouldn't have even thought of doing just 10 years ago when I was their age.
By the way, just being on the Internet doesn't give you great typing skills, or increase your spelling ability. Hell, it does the exact opposite in most cases, so that doesn't mean much to me.
My point was either this kid was unfortunate enough to have his pimped out little ride vanalized by someone, or he was dumb enough to spray paint "666" on only ONE side of his car, thus making him look incredibly stupid as he drove around revving his 4-cylinder engine at stoplights.
