Why do we love to hate each other online? Over at Beta Beat Ryan Holiday writes about “outrage porn,” the steady stream of insincerely performed umbrage and gulping hysteria that seeps like super-concentrated vinegar out of the web’s pores every moment of every day. He writes, “‘Outrage porn,’ as we’ve come to call it, checks all the boxes of compelling content — it’s high valence, it drives comments, it assuages the ego, projects guilt onto a scapegoat, and looks good in your Facebook Feed.”
via Why we’re addicted to online outrage – The Week.
