Is it just me or are people getting dumber every year?

If you think the music-related sections are bad take a look at "Food and Drink" ("Can food colouring blow up?").

I've gotta say that I'm stunned at the stupidity and ignorance of some of the people (kids?) who post questions, and answers, here. Nowadays people don't seem to know what we ALL knew when I was 10!

I think the internet has a lot to answer for: in my day, information about guitars and amps was rare and valuable. We had to make an effort to find out anything but what we found out was nearly always right. Nowadays there's just TOO MUCH information out there, most of it wrong and posted by people that are clueless. A lot of these kids don't know the difference between an acoustic guitar and an electric guitar, don't know what a "cover" is, don't know what notes a guitar should be tuned to (and if they did they can't use a tuner), don't know the difference between chords and strings etc. , but they've heard of scales, modes, truss rods, replacement pickups, capacitors and pots and everything else. How many questions have there been from people trying to tune a guitar with a locking nut that's still locked?

It certainly seems like people are becoming more and more dumb but I keep telling myself that some of the silly questions are just from naive kids who are no worse than I was at that age and that maybe all they need is the sense to keep their mouths shut (or at least to stop posting "questions" on the internet). I also tell myself that for every one idiot posting on this site there are hundreds of kids working hard and learning to do whatever they are interested in the same way as I did - people who just don't need to post questions here. Hope I'm right.

By the way Russell, can you give me some advice - which is the best way to learn guitar: by playing tabs or using Rocksmith?

I just wonder how many of the really stupid questions in any given category are posted by the same person? So many of them have that nasty Troll stink that they can't be serious questions. At least, I hope they're not!

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