Well studies are showing that having computer and the world at the end of your fingertips is destroying our memory, just because we don't have to remember anymore.  So between qq and texting, all the characters will be given to them if they can just get it started.

Mix that with how texting seems to be destroying the language skills of the youth in the West, and yeah the younger generations are forgetting how to write characters.

There are some quite interesting studies into memory and neuro pathways. In the past the storage of information was committed to memory, especially in oral traditions, and as a result certain people could store an unbelievable amount of information. People were trained to do so, especially for governmental and religious reasons.

With the rise in technology, these old neural pathways are being rewired so that we store the means to returning to the information we require and not the actual information itself. Kind of like a rodent storing seeds and nuts all over the place; it will starve unless it remembers how to get back to its food source, the what is is not so important.

As for language skills themselves, it's only in modern times that grammar, spelling etc. has been formalised. Partly, this movement to formalisation helped establish the computation theory of mind, which is now widely dismissed by more forward thinking psychologists and neuro scientists. Language is much more akin to a river then a rock, it flows much more freely.

I thought the difficulty was in the traditional chinese writing and the simplified way. I know that many find the traditional way of writing more difficult. The simplified or modern way is way easier for the younger generations and older generations alike.

Who really cares,not me