New Question for Readers

Here is a story I read in a Q AND A chatroom:

I was getting out of the backseat of a two seater car, when my foot got caught on the seatbelt and I fell face first into the cold hard pavement below.

Everyone was laughing at me. I had not yet had a chance to react, so I laid there motionless, like I was dead. Then everyone started to panic.

So I got up and scolded them all for their insensitivity and didn't speak to any of them for the rest of the night.

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The question is this:

Do you think as a society we have started getting overly sensitive about minor things? Why?