Remember that the internet and, worse, the media, is a giant pain amplifier. You used to only know about what happened in your neck of the woods. Now someone gets a hangnail on the other side of the planet and you know about it instantly. Look at accident stat's, not Youtube, to know if things are really worse, better or the same.
That said, it is nice to have a vast amount of information at one's fingertips. But it must be used for good, not evil knee-jerking.