Herd mentality has been present even from thousands of years ago when cavemen used to live in packs and hunts together. Following that, there are bound to be a multitude of lingering problems, which still apply to the present-day. This essay will go into detail about the problems of mob mentality as well as the solutions to them.
Nowadays, most instances of mob mentality occurs on social medias, which is most likely the result of cyberbullying. As social networks like Facebook, Instagram or Twitter develops, when a person make a post, it is visible to to everyone who happens to stumble upon it. As a result, if a post’s content doesn’t suit the social standards of modern life, the poster has a high chance of being heavily criticized or even worse, attacked.
To combat cyberbullying as an effect of mob mentality, we might need to incorporate a synergy from three different solutions as follows. First of all, youngsters should be educated about cyber safety. This can be done by fostering their required knowledge and skills for their safe and responsible behaviors in this platform in the future. In addition, critical thinking is also essential because behind any avatar is a human being with their own feelings and emotions and we, as civilized beings, would not like to hurt them in any manner. In legal terms, cyberbullying and other forms of over-the-web harassment should be rendered as criminal offence so as to minimize the frequency of violations as such and to punish violators.
To sum up, though herd mentality brings about a major issues, cyberbullying, there a multiple methods to minimize the effect of this modern problem.
Herd
mentality
has been present even from thousands of years ago when cavemen
used
to
live
in packs and hunts together. Following that, there
are bound
to be a multitude of lingering problems, which
still
apply to the present-day. This essay will go into detail about the problems of mob
mentality
as well
as the solutions to them.
Nowadays, most instances of mob
mentality
occurs on social medias, which is most likely the result of cyberbullying. As social networks like Facebook, Instagram or Twitter develops, when a person
make
a post, it is visible
to to
everyone who happens to stumble upon it.
As a result
, if a post’s content doesn’t suit the social standards of modern life, the poster has a high chance of being
heavily
criticized or even worse, attacked.
To combat cyberbullying as an effect of mob
mentality
, we might need to incorporate a synergy from three
different
solutions as follows.
First of all
, youngsters should
be educated
about cyber safety. This can
be done
by fostering their required knowledge and
skills
for their safe and responsible behaviors in this platform in the future.
In addition
, critical thinking is
also
essential
because
behind any avatar is a human being with their
own
feelings and
emotions and
we, as civilized beings, would not like to hurt them in any manner. In legal terms, cyberbullying and other forms of over-the-web harassment should
be rendered
as criminal
offence
so as to
minimize the frequency of violations as such and to punish violators.
To sum up, though herd
mentality
brings about a major issues, cyberbullying, there a multiple
methods
to minimize the effect of this modern problem.