Quote Originally Posted by Bugbear View Post
It's difficult for me to accept that this is a new feature of the younger generations, but it may just be the situation in which I grew up. I can point to writings of the past that are not so polite about differences...
Exactly.
Nothing is ever new with people. Situations just change that allow the same basic (base?) characteristics to manifest in new (and usually annoying) ways.

It used to be nasty notes passed in the halls, prank phone calls, certain innuendo scribed on bathroom walls, etc.

Technology has simply allowed for a much LARGER audience for people's unthinking cruelty to others.