Very much so. I'd even extend the outrage phenomenon to real life and non-tech. "I just had a perfectly reasonable conversation with my neighbor on a matter of

Very much so. I'd even extend the outrage phenomenon to real life and non-tech. "I just had a perfectly reasonable conversation with my neighbor on a matter of no consequence" Said nobody ever. "Omg did you hear what that idiot down the block said this time?" Said everybody, all the time. The very act of gossip is to dramatize something mildly unusual and escalate it into an ever juicer story as it passes around. We are Facebook.