we have for each other. It's easy to be rude anonymously and then it becomes a habit.

Especially for these adult children.

It's not a technology thing.

It leads to a lot of rude behavior and boy is it on display tonight.

Social media makes everyone think they are a special little snowflake. In reality, all opinions are not created equally.

to that stance. But I don't know that it's a sense of entitlement. I think social media has taken things that used to be information gathering/listening, like reading a newspaper article, and turned it into interactive, like commenting in the comments section, tweeting about it, arguing.

They are so used to, when they hear something they disagree with, immediately being able to voice displeasure, so much so that they they interrupt speeches. A speech is a listening activity. It's only interactive from the standpoint of cheering. It's not a conversation.

I didn't think of it like that.

is pure social media. The arrogance is the pseudo-tech, Snowden/Assange ideology that information is knowledge.

It at least contributes to a lot of the self importance many people show.

Sometimes positive sometimes negative. In this case social media has twisted the minds of many of these b.o.b. individuals.

and just as obnoxious.