I kind of suspected this all along. Disadvantaged kids don’t reap the benefits of using free laptops and net connections because they’re poorly supervised, so waste their time playing silly games and typing ‘LOL’ to each other…

   

Giving poor kids computers, internet makes them stupider • The Register 

I read The Register every day. Their sense of humour means they can use silly and incongruous language when reporting IT stories which could otherwise sound pompous. A current favourite of mine on their site is, “HP embiggens ProLiant x64 server line“.  Such a great word, ‘embiggens’. It should be a real one.