Are kids on this site functionally illiterate or do they write badly on purpose? This is scary!!?

Question

Are kids on this site functionally illiterate or do they write badly on purpose? This is scary!!?

Answer 1

I wonder the same thing every time I read a post that is obviously from a kid.. I am afraid to really know..on the + side of that, at least we can weed out which post is from a kid and which is from an adult or MATURE teen (not like we can't from the ?s (do I look pretty?, does he like me? who likes miley cyrus ? DUH)..

Answer 2

Unfortunately though it doesn't stop with their writing skills (or lack thereof).  It is mosts' manner of speech, of dress ...

Somewhere along the way, we lost something as a society.

Answer 3

many R 13 yr olds. How literate were U @ 13 ?

Answer 4

It is just another form of youth slang.  This runs out after high school.  Text messaging on phones is making a new generation of now written youth slang ... dude!