I find the phenomena of viral news interesting. I assume most people in the USA don't want to think about the engineering of planes. In Canada, as of this writi

I find the phenomena of viral news interesting. I assume most people in the USA don't want to think about the engineering of planes. In Canada, as of this writing, car theft news has become viral, but car theft is not new or unusual. My question is: do all social beings have attention surges? Are attention surges required to be social? Flocks of birds and schools of fish all react in unison to input from a few I suppose.