this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
1726 points (99.3% liked)
Microblog Memes
11183 readers
1721 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
RELATED COMMUNITIES:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
You know they don't teach typing anymore either. Yeah Ive got 3 nieces and a nephew. None of them can use a keyboard properly. They type with their index fingers.
How old are they? I was never taught typing, just kinda made it up myself. I tried to learn a few times with Mavis Beacon and stuff, but I can never get the "proper" way to stick.
I had a typing class in middle school about 18 years ago (jfc)
Oldest niece recently 18, then 16 and a 14 year old. Nephew is like 11 I think.
All the girls are from my sister and nephew from my brother. I'm pretty sure that's close to their accurate ages.
But yeah they don't teach typing anymore and they expect kids to just learn it on their own but a lot of people don't have home computers. Kids use phones and tablets.
But I can tell you at college level, most writing has to be typed out.
So it's really setting them up for struggling
I remember typing class. I thought it was super boring and frustrating.
I never would have learned to type properly if I hadn't been forced.
I'm sure that's true for most kids/people.
The thing that helped me improve my skills the most was social media. Specifically messengers.
But kids don't use computers anymore for sending messages back and forth.
I honestly think when these kids get into the workforce, there is going to be some serious problems.
They can't use regular computers very well and they can't type.
Basically boomer level tech skills.
However they end up getting the data into the computer, it's still in the computer. Cursive just isn't useful in that world.
I think cursive was designed for feather dipped ink pens so they didn't have to be lifted because that often causes blobs.
It's also something you can learn easily on the side.
I think it's primary benefit is if it's taught to kids, it helps them develop fine motor skills.
We may see a decline in art drawing abilities due to this. (Among other issues that would contribute to this).
Poorer surgeons.
Loss of quality Craftsmanship in many detail oriented fields.
We learn skills like this better as kids.
That's my only real argument why it should still be taught. Kids don't really learn fine motor tool manipulation skills like this in their other activities.
Human hands are one of our greatest strengths. Shame to not develop this better in kids.
I think you're reaching when you think that no cursive writing will mean poorer surgeons. Is there any evidence to back that up, or is it just supposition?
Besides, less time spent on cursive writing could be sent on drawing or painting. Or, the kids could have more time off which they could use to play video games, which give them better hand-eye coordination making them better surgeons later in life.
Yes there is evidence that humans have what is called "sensitive periods" and "critical periods". Defined as specific development time periods where some skills are developed.
"Sensitive periods" are related to "critical periods" although they both sort of mean the same thing but the first one suggests it's possible for some skill acquisition to occur at a later age but just severely restricted whilst critical periods mean the skill cannot be learned after after the cut off. The farther (in time) you move from the sensitive period for a given skill, the harder it becomes to learn it.
Handwriting sensitive period is 2-4.5 but is still developing at a slower rate from 4-8.
If a child has not figured out how to write by 8, they likely will not improve much more beyond the level they are at.
The one for reading is around 11. Kids who haven't grasped how to read, even dyslexic kids, have little chance of catching up to their peers if they haven't caught up by age 11.
I myself was dyslexic but had a great special ed teacher who helped me catch up and then exceed my peers in a 1 year period. I was 6 or 7. If I did not get that extra support before I turned 10-11, I likely never would have learned to read fluently.
This is a big problem now with kids not being able to read. They won't improve much later. The improvement needs to happen young. Before 10.
https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/biologicalpsychology/chapter/sensitive-and-critical-periods-of-development/
I am only hypothesizing that a lack of hand dexterity training early in life can reduce overall dexterity achievement level later.
But I'm not basing this on a hunch. I'm basing it on what we know of sensitive and critical development periods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period
Wikipedia lacks a lot of info on this so I suggest the first link if you are curious to learn more about this.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5851374/
The effect of fine motor skills on handwriting legibility in preschool age children
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=10&q=cursive+writing+dexterity&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C14#d=gs_qabs&t=1774580867397&u=%23p%3D2Az7DrfEQUIJ
Effect of Basketball Dribbling Practice on Cursive Handwriting of Primary School Children