Joy's Opinion On: Slang

Have people gotten more stupid lately? Are they trying to re-invent the English language? Do they all have speech impediments? Are they mentally retarded? Did their parents never teach them proper grammar? What is it? Why is every body now substituting, "My friend," with, "Mah homie-G."? Here are some more phrases/words and their contemporary substitutes:

"What are you up to?" = "Wassup?"
Butt = Laffy Taffy
"Hey." = "Yo."
"There was this man..." = "Dere was dis dude..."
"No problem." = "No s***."
"My friends and I..." = "Me and da boys in mah hood..."

Please tell me this is just a fad, and people will go back to proper English soon. It's getting confusing keeping up with all the new words, and trying not to say anything offending. Like, how was the middle finger made into an insult?

Maybe we should all be admitted to a nice mental hospital...there's one in the city that I would recomend...