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Hopefully I am posting this in the right forum, if not I will post it elsewhere. This is a general question though and something I have thought about quite a few years now.
I have personally noticed in the last 10 years or so people have become more hostile, more easily offended, think more like victims, they have also become more argumentative. I'm also noticing more hostile drivers on the road towards other drivers.
I am also noticing more online bullying than I did back in the 2000s, what benefit do certain people get by insulting other peoples posts and making them depressed and feel bad?
What seems to be causing this? I know there this has always existed, but it seems far more extreme in the last decade.
I think people are more hostile than they were just three years ago. It seems that along with a virus, the pandemic infected people with lousy behavior and social amnesia. It's telling that after spending time with themselves, so many emerged not as butterflies appreciative of their newfound freedom, but as raging jackasses intent on revealing how base, rude, crude, and obnoxious they can be.
But you know what? If reading social media depresses you, and trolls annoy you, you can always turn it off and do something else.
P.S. Maybe the Psychology forum would be better for this? You can ask a mod.
In real life I haven't noticed any difference with regards to hostility, as I've always encountered nice and hostile people everywhere and I haven't noticed the percentages changing. 20 years ago I would get into several road rage incidents a year. The last serious road rage incident I remember getting into was about 8 years ago. Then again it could be my behavior as I'm sure I've mellowed out over the years.
Online is a different story. If you got all your information from online sources and only lived online you'd be dumbfounded at how the world hasn't ended yet.
Hopefully I am posting this in the right forum, if not I will post it elsewhere. This is a general question though and something I have thought about quite a few years now.
I have personally noticed in the last 10 years or so people have become more hostile, more easily offended, think more like victims, they have also become more argumentative. I'm also noticing more hostile drivers on the road towards other drivers.
I am also noticing more online bullying than I did back in the 2000s, what benefit do certain people get by insulting other peoples posts and making them depressed and feel bad?
What seems to be causing this? I know there this has always existed, but it seems far more extreme in the last decade.
Absolutely. I would say your time frame is right. People are just a lot more on edge in the last 10 years.
Certain women drivers have gotten way more hostile. There may be more young women that way now than 18-25 year old males.
I do agree with the other poster, however, that it got worse during the pandemic, for obvious reasons. Isolation and fear causes those reactions.
Why it has been down the last 10 years I don't know. But life expectancy started declining around 2015. And it was largely do to deaths from despair-drugs, suicides. The rudeness and the decline in life expectancy are tied.
Hopefully I am posting this in the right forum, if not I will post it elsewhere. This is a general question though and something I have thought about quite a few years now.
I have personally noticed in the last 10 years or so people have become more hostile, more easily offended, think more like victims, they have also become more argumentative. I'm also noticing more hostile drivers on the road towards other drivers.
I am also noticing more online bullying than I did back in the 2000s, what benefit do certain people get by insulting other peoples posts and making them depressed and feel bad?
What seems to be causing this? I know there this has always existed, but it seems far more extreme in the last decade.
I believe you're correct. I put a lot of this on social media. Where back in The Good Old Days, getting all smarmy and in-your-face with someone over trivia could have garnered you a punch in the nose or at least a good chewing out--or loss of friends--, today people can do it with impunity because THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE.
I see it as similar to the new policies of letting people off for serious crimes, with no bail required. When there's no consequence for bad behavior--no big surprise--those types keep behaving worse.
Strange ... As I grew up during the civil riots. That was hostile. To the point the national guard was called in..
Soon after our area saw more muggings and more gang groups .
As a kid ...in a city. It was terrifying.
Would move further away from the city as the violence became the norm.
Mind you...batter wives still go on. . gun deaths still remain active. Car jackings, and muggings ... If there has been an uptick of anything in my area , it's the emboldened balderdash of Brash lies ..
Radical groups . Bad enough each year even after the civil rights act was passed... Our area has to endure a two day retreat by the Kkk. Nothing good comes from those two days either ..
I think the recent surge in hostility began with the non-accountability of social media and was exacerbated by the pandemic, but it was also fueled by the behavior of our politicians and journalists who like to fan the flames every chance they get.
I've noticed that people are more hostile even on City-Data than they were just TWO years ago!
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