I don't do social media, except for HN (which has somehow avoided this problem... I think?). My wife, on the other hand, uses Twitter. She likes philosophy, cur

I don't do social media, except for HN (which has somehow avoided this problem... I think?). My wife, on the other hand, uses Twitter. She likes philosophy, current affairs and a good logical debate. Her social anxiety means that she doesn't like stressful human interaction but in spite of this, she will argue her side of a contentious issue even if she's on the unpopular side and at risk of a pile on. For that reason, she never engages in pile-ons or "cancelling". Probably because of this, she has a surprising number of pretty famous sceptics, writers, philosophers and scientists following her (and she really is a "nobody" in any of these areas). What annoyed the hell out of her is that her top tweet is one that she typed while drunk after reading something that made her blood boil. I don't think that likes and shares teach people to express more outrage. I think that the root cause here is that we reward outrage. We love to hear somebody bitch lyrical, more than we like a good joke. We live to read about some "Karen" getting her comeuppance.