I wonder why in years past, we all not only survived being picked on, we ended up with many friends, successes in life? Kids can be mean. Not New news. 

So is the difference the rapid ability of social media transmissions, or the lack of a parent at home when their child comes home broken hearted right after school? (That immediate time frame of traumatized is short-lived, by the time a working parent walks in their child is onto other news-but the devastation is not gone-they just do not talk about it at that point.) 

Or is it both?