It is argued that in recent times, a growing number of people are showcasing anti-social behaviors and disrespect for others. The rise of this worrying trend can be due to multiple reasons such as high-levels of stress and lack of trust among individuals, addiction to social media, or simply a lack of community. If the right measures are taken, this issue can be potentially solved.
These days, people have more access to news all around the world compared to any other time in history. This means, the public is more likely to be exposed to dark and harsher news such as war and murder cases. Naturally, these exposures increase stress and anxiety among individuals causing a loss of trust between people.This results in behaviors that are considered anti-social and dismissive. Social media, on the other hand, also plays an important role in this issue. Social media platforms such as Youtube and Instagram are all curated to be highly addicting and boost dopamine with every second spent on them. This naturally leads to an addiction among users, making them depend on these apps to communicate with their peers; meaning they can not have a healthy social life outside of social media.
Several things can be done to address these problems. Building healthy communties is one of the main solutions. Organizations and institutions can build communities and campaigns specifically built to provide a place that helps people with socializing issues. For example, New York’s mayor, after seeing citizens having no place to connect to people, other than school and their workplaces, prepared events and campaigns for the public. Another solution is the government enforcing strict rules for social media companies to make their platforms less addicting. Short form content can be removed from these platforms, as these sort of contents are harmful for the human mind.
In conculsion, there are several reasons that cause anti-social behaviors and a lack of respect for others, for instance, stress and social media addictions are some causes. If authorities and organizations take the right steps and provide the public with a positive community, this problem will be solved.