i think it started way before the internet. attention spans declined dramatically with the advent of mtv. and i'm not sure the internet is making us less intelligent. we now have access to more information much faster than we ever have been able to before. as for reading. i still read on the bus to and from work, and will look up and stare out the window now and again. not because the book is bad, but between staring at a computer screen all day, tv/movie/whatever screen at night i just find it nice to watch the world for a wee bit even if it is through a bus window.
although, i agree with neatoramawontsendmeapassword too on the grammar, etc. however, i also believe that was in decline before the internet became big as well.....and texting has not helped......ah, well such is life.
or it could be with all the shark tourism out there and constant chumming of the water they could be linking humans with food......there's an interesting article in the smithsonian magazine about that, this month.
ahhhhhhh.....well at least that means i will only have to go to a job i hate with every fiber of my soul for another week....so there's some good that will come of it.
i wonder he will have to write his name in all caps and have a circle r after it. . . and on anything he writes his name on will he have to put the approved legal at the bottom......
with all the nut-jobs and their signs about the coming apocalypse out there - not to mention the clothing store/restaurant advertisements that are in this same vein i doubt i would have read his sign. more likely seen he was wearing a hand lettered sign and steered clear. i really don't want to be roped in to somebody telling me about how jesus is an alien and controlled by the kgb, etc. etc.
i wonder if anyone is going to burn the "mayor's" house down in reprisal over this one........i still consider both a waste (the cougar and the polar bear).
although, i agree with neatoramawontsendmeapassword too on the grammar, etc. however, i also believe that was in decline before the internet became big as well.....and texting has not helped......ah, well such is life.