Do you think people have shorter tempers now, because they are accustomed to entertaining themselves?

Asked by JLeslie (65418) December 20th, 2015 from iPhone

I’m talking about social media, Netflix, DVR, email, the internet in general.

All these things we can now do to fill our time, does it make us less tolerant of interruptions? Less needy for human interaction with our families? Do people who weren’t so frustrated and angry seem to have become more short tempered in the last 5–10 years? We can compare it to addiction, but I’m not even going that far.

I feel like we are all on our own schedules.

I’m not sure if I’m communicating what I mean or what I’m feeling about it.

I think there are many things that causes short tempers, stress is a biggy these days, but I think that not needing your family for every day interactions might be part of it.