Too many mistake's people!

I've noticed recently.. and I don't know if it's that I just seem to paying attention to it more, or if it's more prevalent in places I've been reading more lately or there are just more people doing it now.. as opposed to some vague time that came before what I'm putting under the "now" heading but fuck there are a lot of poorly placed apostrophes around!

Try saying that three times quickly.

Poorly placed apostrophes.

I know I've written about this before and for more people it's not the most riveting of subjects.. although for those who find it riveting it is very riveting indeed.. but I just had to say it. I think it might be because.. I dunno, it might be because I'm reading a lot of otherwise well written pieces and comments who have a habit of apostrphying everything that ends in an s, with nary a clue that it's wrong. And people do it more than once in the same text.. so it's clearly not just a typo.. they just don't know!

It's perplexing. There is a lot out there that's just big mess of poorly written, badly spelt, run on paragraphs, all caps grammatically horrific crap... and in those places I don't think anything of yet another mistake.. but why oh why do so many people.. people who otherwise know how to write good.. do this?

Why?