Horrid neighbors

So I'm part of this whatsapp group of the local neighborhood.
There's something about the anonymity of hiding behind your mobile that turns an otherwise polite member of society into a troll

Now it was clearly stated this was a security related neighborhood group. Yet people felt free to :

• send good morning messages and good bless you everyday
• spam 
• share their political views, 
• cures to cancers 
• outdated posts of missing children
• complaints of  dirty drains and then a plea for somebody to please do something
• religious doctrine
• repeated spams because their thumbs had seizures
• pictures of accidents & dead children
• rumours

and today, I get messages cursing cats. Excuse me? I assume cats have suddenly evolved to own smartphones and can read since their anger was directed to the cats.
Thankfully other members of the group told him off.

Smartphones have really changed the way we communicate. Any Tom Dick and Harry with functional fingers and an IQ of 10 can pop up a post and it goes viral because no one bothers to verify its authenticity.

It's truly sad because it looks like the only 'smart' one in the relationship is the phone and not the idiot at the other end of the keypad.