I think there are two very different societies at play here. Online as you said has been around awhile now, the psychologist have had time to learn how to separate out the two societies and to build a playground for themselves in the society of the internet.

Many people will rant and rave to a lot of strangers on-line, air grievances with strangers on line, and bully those they can on line. In the other society; the walking talking one, not the sitting typing one, people will and do react differently when face to face.

Making a scene in the walk and talk society is very very much looked down upon by most people, on line society, this is the norm, it is part and parcel of the look at me syndrome. A cry for attention they can not use in the walking society.

I have noticed however over the last couple of years of there being some bleed over from the sitting typing society of the internet. People in general are seeming to become more tense, more angry, yet at the same time, I have also noticed over the last couple of years that on-line is becoming a little bit more polite.

I think soon the sociologist will be having a lot of fun trying to figure out where current society became bi-polar, while the psychologist and psychiatrist just sit back laughing their asses off.

I have buttons and triggers, and what sets them off sometimes is a mystery to me, but then again, I tend not to look to closely at my bad reaction and still prefer to wear the rose colored glasses verse the ones with hypnotic swirls and flashing lights.