Is it the world or just me?

These things are just new ways of communicating. Some are more appropriate than others, depending on what you want to accomplish with it. Along with the good comes the bad, but that's down to the people using it, not the technology in itself. Distracted driving will eventually become universally criminalized just as drunk driving is now. They had "hands-free" laws in Europe back in the early 90's. Rude people will suffer the same consequences they always have.

Hopefully they wise up before it's too late for whoever they pissed off last time.