Generation Y is not stupid, just different.

Some thoughts:

"The Internet has developed a communication platform that enhances the way we learn and communicate."

It's a tool, yes, but tools can be misused. Just because you have it, does not mean you are going to use it.

"Generation Y may lack in terms of true research and grammar but we will never lack in connecting to the global environment."

True research and grammar (language) are important to communicate with others. Connections to a global environment are great, but if one lacks the skill to analyze that global environment, what's the point?

"Gone are the days when you could not communicate with the opposite hemisphere. We are living in a global information highway where knowledge is plentiful…"

You sound like you lived in the early 1900s :-) Yes the internet was not available to all at the tail end of the last century, but there WAS communication. I had at least 20 pen-pals for a period of ten years (pre-internet) from the other hemisphere. It was great! Also, don't confuse DATA with KNOWLEDGE. With the internet we have plentiful DATA, how we deconstruct, analyze and synthesize that data is how we gain knowledge.

"We may just be losing the essentials of old school thought."

Socrates ain't dead yet...and his body has been dead for centuries. There is a benefit to "old school thought". The tools have changed, but the methodology of cultivating the mind and understanding the world around you remains the same.

Just my 2c

Have you ever seen the movie Idiocracy? If you haven't, you should. It's not the best movie but there's an interesting concept behind it. The movie is based 3000 or so years from now and the planet is pretty much run by a bunch of idiots. The concept was that all the stupid people would marry other stupid people and have a lot of kids (let's say 10) whereas the smart people would only have 1, 2, or even none. After a while, all the smart people died out. I'm not saying this is happening necessarily, but it's an interesting thought.

I hope that the advent of the internet and the openness of information has made Gen Y smarter since information is readily available, but I feel like it has had the opposite effect. With information so easily available, I don't need to know as much, since I can just Google it and find it in a second anyway. We've started to depend on the internet for our knowledge and can rely less on our own intelligence. As the next generation grows up, they will be even more reliant then we were and so on and so on.

I don't think Gen Y is stupid, so much as the knowledge society that has now been created could easily be mismanaged.
I think the old school notions of integrity and learning are important here.

Gen Y has to remember that paperless society or not, some of those old school notions are the ones that separate the wheat from the chaff. It's about managing knowledge correctly really.

"Stupid is what a stupid does" - I think it was Forrest Gump and I think it applied to GEN-X GEN-Y. We are product of our upbringing and environment, when I see kids now a days of how fluent and conversant with technology stuff and how smart they are ... (I feel comparatively we were not as smart) but again the influence the internet/media has on this GEN is beyond our understanding.

50 years from now (if we are alive) and look back I am pretty sure we will have to redefine the term STUPIDITY.

"Old School Thought" Or life in general

-Sitting in a library looking through books for information
-Taking a bike ride without an ipod
-Having to see our friends in order to effectively communicate
-Needing to actually cook our meals instead of fast-food, microwave meals or boil and add food recipes
-Using a push-mower, one without a motor
-Only having a handful of TV channels to choose from
-No video games

..Honestly, we might be losing some old school 'thought'.

Is it making us more stupid? I think so. Common Sense is very important to a person's intelligence and I think people are losing that.

Common sense says to watch the road when driving and not replying to a text, yet people text and drive all the time..

I heard somewhere that a news channel had a story and their reference was 'The Internet' (WTF?!?!?)

Common sense tells me to not get pregnant, but for others...Not so much, people are having more babies in worse situations; teenage pregnancy, 'hooking' or doing drugs, before they are ready to provide for a family, before they're married (not that its wrong, it can provide more stability and support with two people).

People would prefer to be on welfare or unemployment than go out and work.

The list goes on and on....

As a whole are we becoming more stupid? I think so. Does that mean that every person is becoming more stupid? No. I think brilliant and average intelligence is out there, but it does seem to becoming less and less..

I think the bigger concern is how easy it is to NOT challenge the brain or the body. We are becoming fat and lazy. The next logical step is to become dumb. But who knows, maybe we'll lose logic before that happens and decide to do something else. :)