Not just social media, but the population takes its cues from regular media, who make money by showing horrible shit every day, true or exaggerated. This leads

Not just social media, but the population takes its cues from regular media, who make money by showing horrible shit every day, true or exaggerated. This leads to mean world syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome Believe it or not, if you are healthy you're much more likely to die in a car accident than anything else the regular media wants you to believe: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm