"Bler bler bler, this generation is horrible -- but mine wasn't!"

Doing research for my project about Digital Natives (a term coined by Mark Prensky in 2001 for people of the "internet generation"), and I came across a CNN article on the topic. I read down through the comments, just because it might have some interesting information. Man oh MAN are a lot of them full of "kids today suck"! It's kind of hard not to take it personally when people say that my generation can't spell and can't use grammar and is stupid. I'm taking peace in the idea that previous generations probably said the same thing about them. After all, Socrates is recorded as having complained that writing would make people stupid. Maybe we can't memorize The Odyssey anymore, but I can talk to someone on the other side of the planet!