Editor’s Letter
Lately, I’ve been wondering…have we, as a society, become more irritable than ever? Our social media feeds certainly seem to point in that direction, as they play frequent host to irate outrage against poor service, celebrity statements, political leanings, fashion choices, and imaginary (and unimaginary) insults. Everything seems to annoy us these days, every inconvenience offends us, and we want the world to know. I guess we could blame this flood of vituperation on the times, our era of information overload. A study published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior in 2016 found that people who use smartphones and other digital devices are more likely to feel irritable and impatient. Plus, we are getting less sleep than our predecessors, making our generation more stressed. And then we have triggers…