"The Queen's death offered an opportunity to get loud and perform "outrage." It's so damn easy to do with social media."

This is the single greatest tragedy of the way we've decided to use social media. It's so easy to imagine a world where outrage wasn't the currency of social media. Where we rewarded compassion or sincerity or insight with our attention instead. Just imagine if Anya's tweet had just been quietly dismissed as the pointless vitriol it was.

I'd love to see some comprehensive research into why the internet seems to bring out our most negative qualities so much more than our positive ones.