<human>: Can you condense the text into a few key points?

Maybe I'm totally insane for thinking this, and maybe I'll come across as a crotchety old man yearning for the old days (I'm only 20 though); but I am really worried for the younger kids today. 

For example, this isn't in the timeframe I mentioned, but bear with me. My girlfriend has a younger sister (somewhere between 13-15 we shall say), and she's totally corrupted by the popular media of today. She's convinced she needs to wear 80 pounds of makeup every day, have bleached hair, possessions ist krieg, etc. She is also a heavy drinker, a pot smoker, really sexually active and extremely rude. Even though this is only 7-10 years younger than my generation, nearly *none* of mine was like this; yet, it seems to me, a lot of her generation are exactly like her.

That really scares me for the kids who have been born post-9/11 (even here in Canada) who are surrounded by so much technology that there is no aire of remoteness from the rest of the world. 

I've also heard rumors that there was a class (or something) of grade 4 students here in my home-town in which ~40% of the kids couldn't hand-write their name because they weren't used to using a pen. They asked if they could just type it instead (Sorry I don't have a link, someone showed me the article in our newspaper [the Red Deer Advocate] one day at work).
<bot>: Is technology, modern culture and media messing kids up more-so now than it was for those born 20 years ago?