There is some ‘alliteration’ for you! However, my great concern is the fact that there are too many today who would not understand the title or would not know the meaning of ‘alliteration’ (a repetition of words beginning with the same letter, as in Peter Piper pecked … …). You might ask, “What does this have to do with home-based Internet businesses?” I’ll get to that.

I am a member of several forums and in each one, at some point, and often on several occasions, there is a long discussion about the level of literacy among graduates these days (or during the last twenty years). It’s perfectly obvious on all the forums that many people don’t even have the most basic skills when it comes to grammar and spelling.

Browsing as many websites as I do on a daily basis, like all those who make a living through home businesses, I sometimes feel desperate for some of those who have recently passed through so-called educational institutions posing as schools in the west. countries. I am Australian, I have spoken to many in the US, Britain and Canada and it seems that the problem is not only relevant to one country or area in the West.

Even when working in the ‘real’ world, I had the opportunity to hire graduates who, of course, needed to complete an application. I still have a couple of extraordinary examples of ‘education failing miserably’.

I asked earlier, “What does this have to do with home-based internet businesses?” When you consider that the level of literacy required to put together a reasonable quality website, fill it with acceptable content, and promote it in search engines and the general internet population, is beyond the writing capabilities (spelling and grammar) of an average high school graduate, this is indeed a major concern. Of course, you must not only know how to write, but also read and understand others.

Where will we be in ten or fifteen years if something is not done now to remedy this long-standing problem? Over and over again over the years, I have heard people complain about the quality of our graduates’ grammar and / or spelling, let alone the ability to create and write a good article, some website content reasonable or acceptable essay.

All the forecasts indicate huge increases in the level of activity on the Internet, from those who will use it to buy all kinds of items, possibly eventually alleviating the need for the gigantic shopping complexes we have now, up to the thousands (dare I say millions) . You will join the lucky ones who have been able to turn their home office and PC into a means of earning the weekly salary.

So what about all these unfortunate youngsters in a world where the written word, once again, becomes as important as speech itself? How will they fare, what will be their fate in this Internet-driven world of the future? Dim to say the least, I dare say.

In the last five to ten years, the way we communicate has undergone a big change from the telephone, the telex (there and old!) And the letter to email. Anyone who goes to work today in an office, who does not know how to use e-mail, will be ‘incommunicado’. In fact, few today do not exchange information, greetings and news at home with friends and family via email. It is the simple, popular, cheap and secure way in which all kinds of communication take place and what are we doing? There are still thousands of young people each year who have been defrauded by a system that, although unexpectedly, has left them unarmed, without cover in an “illiterate no man’s land.”

There are some who have managed to go through the ‘mill’ with a good degree of ability to express themselves with the written word, but I would dare to suppose that there are two or three who have not done it for every one who has. The real shame is that it is not your fault.

If we’re going to give in to a virtually world (pun intended) built around the internet, isn’t it a good idea if those in it can read and write?