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Not OP but had a thought reading your comment. I wonder how much of this perceived shift in language is driven by corpo's sanitizing for advertisers and how much is young people who have been fully raised online.
As you say, humans are social animals. It makes sense to me then, that if you were raised within an online environment you would naturally extend that sociability to it. However, if much of this technology grow after you were socialized would you be more inclined to see it as a relief valve to vent anger into.
It is more an issue that the Internet lets people hide behind anonymity and avoid witnessing the actual consequences of their cruelty. It's the same dynamic that can cause road rage: if they can't see your face they don't have to acknowledge your humanity, and therefore don't have to care if they hurt you.
And that's the issue. You can't vent anger into the Internet without being an angry person in front of or at others. The Internet isn't a soulless network of machines, it's filled with real people. If you use other people as your anger relief valve, those people aren't going to like you or want you around.