I think to some extent it's more that society is broken and social media has grown to the point that it's easier for that to be displayed. I've been on the internet since the days your ISP would send a floppy disc with IE, Netscape, Outlook and an FTP program when you signed up and the kind of behaviour on display now is the same as what would happen on bulletin boards and Usenet. The only difference now is the exponential growth of people online, the ease of which posting stuff can be done and media attention paid to it.
I think to some extent it's more that society is broken and social media has grown to the point that it's easier for that to be displayed. I've been on the internet since the days your ISP would send a floppy disc with IE, Netscape, Outlook and an FTP program when you signed up and the kind of behaviour on display now is the same as what would happen on bulletin boards and Usenet. The only difference now is the exponential growth of people online, the ease of which posting stuff can be done and media attention paid to it.