A Very brief post, for a very brief thought

Something occurred to me today as I was scouring the web for information on ghost towns to visit on my next trip. The main ghost town site is a wiki sort of affair (although it, and it's concept, predates wikipedia by several years), with input from ghost town enthusiasts all over. As I was reading through the various submissions, I was trying to balance my horror at the utterly appalling spelling and grammar with the fact that I was getting useful information that I would likely not find elsewhere. Then it dawned on me; "kids today," and all who follow, essentially, all those who are being raised on such content, will probably never have the spelling and grammar skills of the generations before them, as they will not have properly formed notions of what our language is supposed to look like. To them, "burgandy" and "lavendar" are colors. These are two misspellings that I run across with frightening frequency, but trust me, it doesn't come close to ending there. I wonder, if I had taken in sufficient quantities of misspellings and grammatical errors from the web, rather than the professionally written and edited book content that comprised the majority of my reading during my formative years, would I have wound up with the skillset I have? It seems unlikely, to say the least.