Facebook is...

...a public display of how little attention American's pay in English class. Let's think about the average American for just a second. We have spoken American-English since our first words at a few months of age. Then, at the age of approximately 5, we begin school, where we study the English language each year for the next 12 years. Not only do we speak it, we write it, we understand it, and we communicate with it, correct? How come, after at least TWELVE YEARS of study, and 20+ years of speaking, do people still struggle with correct grammar?? And why do we display this lack of intelligence across the internet?? It's no wonder we get the "dumb American" stereotype! Can we be just a little bit better? Try just a little bit harder?

It is embarrassing to read people's Facebook statuses, knowing that they were allowed to graduate high school although unable to correctly diagram a sentence before vocalizing it. I'm not saying that I am an English expert by any means, I'm just asking why people don't know how to maintain the correct tense, use the correct conjunctions, and form grammatically correct sentences for something as simple as a Facebook status. Am I being orgulous? Absolutely. I just think we need to step it up act more educated.