Are teens getting stupider

I have seen more and more teens acting pathetic and rather dumb than usual. How long til the planet explodes from some idiot preses the button because he was trying to reach the nachos? :P

i think ignorance has always been an issue, but to a degree, yes i think so. I was a volunteer youth leader for 4 years and it was depressing. Some of the teens were doing things I'd NEVER do even as a kid. I've also found that they believe the world is theirs to control and all must bow to them with their technology that people from the generations before me created. So yeah, all in all I think a lot of the kids are dumber than what kids use to be and they're almost all on some sort of power trip or they're trying to prove that the world is wrong and they're "individualism" (by conforming to groups of apparent "individualists") makes them all knowing.

edit: yeah, Idiocracy describes it pretty good. "It's got electrolites cause that's what we need"

[QUOTE="Lto_thaG"]Your topic title :|solid_mario

I've clearly been spending far too much time on the internet to not realise anything was wrong with the thread title *slaps self*.

I don't think teens are becoming more stupid, they are just being allowed to be more stupid than any time previously.

No just as you get older they seem stupider. Teenagers have always been stupid. just when you are one you fail to notice it. Hit your 20s and it becomes more noticeable every year.Samwel_X

This guy couldn't be more right.

I think the Internet becoming more saturated into the mainstream fuels this kind of thinking. With every dumb thing teenagers do being posted on YouTube for the world to see it's no wonder people feel this way. Back in the day (before YouTube) most dumb things teenagers did probably went unkown to most people.

I think that teens are becoming intellectually smarter thanks to the internet and websites like youtube, myspace and forums (at least they're learning how to debate, spell and punctuate). But other than that, it still breeds immaturity and ignorance at the same time. Stupid teens being able to say whatever they want to people over the internet without getting knocked out like they would have back in the day if they'd run their mouth out like they do on the internet.

More stupid you mean.....and it depends as in all things on the individual.LJS9502_basic

I have trouble understanding your question, you think that kids in the eighties were less ignorant? Or do you mean that they were more mature.

There's probably no difference.

Teens have always been stupid.

More spoiled though? Yeah, I definitely think so. The generation after them I pray for.

All teens are stupid, in their own way, and that never goes away. It just gets a little better.

So no, it's just that your own stupidity isn't noticable until after you're a teenager (and I'm not referring to you specifically here, don't get the wrong idea).

I really hope I'm right on this, as knowing this while I'm still a teenager would be quite valuable.

Teens from past years grew up faster. They were more mature for their age. Kids today are more lazy and immature. That may reek of stupidity.

I'm 19, so still a teen.. but I feel like those other teens around me are not as smart as me. Even the ones who are more "book smart" than me, who know more facts and figures, I feel like they are intellectually inferior. It has more to do with maturity, street smarts, and real life smarts.

It's not as noticable in college.. but I work with some younger teens still in high school, and their immaturity is very noticable.

Yeah... Especially when your walking down your high school hallway and behind you you hear: "Dude! I can't believe you came in her mouth!"...

But, yeah...

I think that teens are becoming intellectually smarter thanks to the internet and websites like youtube, myspace and forums (at least they're learning how to debate, spell and punctuate). But other than that, it still breeds immaturity and ignorance at the same time. Stupid teens being able to say whatever they want to people over the internet without getting knocked out like they would have back in the day if they'd run their mouth out like they do on the internet.

Rum_Monkey

As far as gramar ad punctuation is concerned, I beg to differ. Spend a month as a mod in a teen chat room and you'll find maybe 1 out of 10 teens actually know how to form full sentences with full words that don't consist of "u" and "r" and "wassup". I can barely understand them sometimes. Their english is so chopy, I'd do better talking to a Japanese kid with 1 week of English classes under his belt.

Yes, nachos make your point valid.

Oh the irony. It's 'more stupid' not 'stupider'.

Your topic title :|Lto_thaG

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I think teens are getting more "booksmarts" and less "common sense" (atleast what i believe is common sense).

I have seen more and more teens acting pathetic and rather dumb than usual. How long til the planet explodes from some idiot preses the button because he was trying to reach the nachos? :P

PurelogicsBack

Stab in the dark: Your a teenager and you not so unreasonably feel your surrounded by morons and you've started wondering if people of your age were always this stupid. Well that's my impression of you. Personally I feel its not that people are getting dumber but ignorance is becoming more excepted.

Well, I think the average teen is getting less intelligentjames28893

For growing up in the information age, it seems kind of ironic that kids would be getting stupider.Vis-a-Vis

not really, since you can transfer information easily it means people can know less themselves.

I think teens are getting more "booksmarts" and less "common sense" (atleast what i believe is common sense).

hoola

I think they know they need to get all those qualifications with good grades (well the ones that consider them selves smart) but they don't have the same passion in finding something to do with them. Then there are the kids who make it through and then there are the ones who could care less.