Handwriting

Cris, in a comment on my last post, so kindly said my handwriting is "great". I however was appalled to see it when enlarged - it looks to me like a child wrote it. BUT, at least I can still use pen and paper. After years of using a computer I found that I was getting quite rusty at writing until I started learning Greek and had to make notes, and keeping a diary/journal has also helped.

There is one interesting and rather disturbing thing I've noticed about people who have grown up in the computer age. Good examples are my two sons, who went to a school where there was a computer in the room when they first started school, and access to computers increased rapidly after that. They, like many of their contemporaries, cannot write cursive/running writing/linked writing, whatever you want to call it. They PRINT everything, and I also noticed this when I worked with students at the reference desk in the university library. I know for a fact that my sons were taught how to write in school but there was an ever increasing requirement for them to hand in work that had been typed up on a computer.

Has anyone else noticed this, or does this not happen elsewhere? I wonder: what do they do when they have to sign important documents, like when they get a loan, buy a house, etc? Their "signatures" are just printed...