[post_page_title]The psychology of the mob[/post_page_title]
The second Holly Jones may have been onto something. One professor of telecommunications dubbed this the “car wreck phenomenon.” We were all watching the verbal equivalent of a car wreck, he explained, as people were destroying themselves before our eyes.
On the flip side, the rise of social media and smartphones has brought about the creation of mobs finding new things to be angry about. Once we find such a villain, an entire global audience is invited to join in with ridicule and abuse completely disproportionate to the original offense.
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