Friendships Cut Short On Social Media As People Get Ruder:
Rudeness and insults are cutting online friendships short with a survey on Wednesday showing people are getting ruder on social media and two in five users have ended contact after a virtual altercation.
As social media usage surges, the survey found so has incivility with 78% of 2,698 people reporting an increase in rudeness online with people having no qualms about being less polite virtually than in person.
This is a very interesting article that says a lot about today's society.
The rudeness described in the article spills over into our daily lives, at the mall, the supermarket and most evidently on the road.
My take on the issue is that people today are more like undisciplined children, never crossing the threshold into adulthood. Just like children, they seem to have no awareness of their surroundings, they act like five year old's who see something they want and run straight at it, totally unaware of anything in their path. They lack the social graces that are usually obtained as part of the maturing process from child, to teen, and finally adulthood.
Some of my friends call it "Arrested Development", others call it the "Me Generation." Whatever it is, there are a lot of people who are going to be in for a rude (pun intended) awakening when they are forced into adult hood by the impending economic collapse.
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