OK, being someone who has a fair amount of experience on the internet, there are some phenomena which I simply do not understand. Namely, the LOLCats and Icanhascheezeburger sites. If you've never seen these, well, what they are, are Cat pictures with poorly worded, badly spelled captions with terrible grammar. I ask you, rhetorically, what is the point of these?
Now, don't get me wrong, I understand the feelings of cat lovers, and can understand their obsessions with their pets. I grant them that, but the pictures, and captions? Presumably the perpetrators of these images may very well not even be cat owners. Well, I don't get it. With the advent of social networking sites now, my Facebook has been inundated by these pointless images, does this mean people are communicating like this now? Will all future communication be in this form? Should we look forward to a government press release in the form of a LOLcat with it's finger on the red button, stating "We r @ War!"?
With the works of William Shakespeare now being released rewritten into txtspeak (so the "kids" can understand them), it's a fair assumption that good English and grammar are not particularly high on peoples priorities....
....and that's just wrong.