Is it just me, or is online spelling/grammar getting worse every few weeks?

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Well, maybe not every few weeks, but it seems to be getting worse by the month (or maybe I'm just looking at more and more things). It definitely seems worse than when I first got on the net in about 1995. Maybe it's because of txtmsg lingo. Or maybe it's because computers are more common now, and easier to use, so any dingbat can get online. Possibly it's to do with the education system. Do they still teach English?Quite a few things I've read here are either just spelt wrong, or else they are in completely random gibberish, misspellings and wrong grammar mixed with txtmsg speak. It's not just on these type of sites. I notice it on proper published articles, on places you'd think would have a proofreader, or at least hire people who can spell. These are supposedly professional authors, journalists, etc who are still puzzled by their, there and they're. Now this site even has a spell checker, which few people seem to know about, even though it pops up telling you how many mistakes you have. I've noticed it misses some and doesn't correct grammar, and some up with some weird choices. It also doesn't like 'yeh' for some reason. Which is slang, but anyway... I find it really funny when people who have english as a 2nd language speak it better than these first language people. I know of quite a few. for example a Dutch person who can write better English than quite a few people from USA/UK/Australia. I don't have a problem with people getting things wrong if they don't speak English as a first language. I figure if they speak 2 or more languages, they are doing better than most of the population. I can usually tell the difference. Am I the only one who notices this and gets annoyed with it? One thing I can't stand is supposed txt speak, which i can see the use of when it shortens words to fit the maximum into a limited space. but when they spell a word, using the same amount of letters, but just wrong, that annoys me. Especially when it's on the internet, where there isn't a size limit, usually. Well, that's the end of my rant. I will say that I also used to type in IRC, and while it made my typing much faster, my punctuation and grammar and such went downhill. Usually because to type faster I was skipping things! That and not reading what I was typing (and not being able to touch type). But at least I was able to see what was wrong. It seems like a lot nowadays either don't know, don't care, or do it deliberately.