Internet and Anti-social Youths

Running Head: Internet and Anti-social Youths
Internet and Anti-social Youths
Essay
System04104
5/13/2019

Internet and Anti-social Youths
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The internet is creating a generation of anti-social youth
Internet addiction is so common in our youth generation in the modern digital life of people
and it is quite prevalent in secondary and universities students. The increasing use of Internet
not only affects the health of our youth generation rather it forces them some anti-social
activities like cyber-bullying, pornography, and other anti-social activities like theft, hacking,
blackmailing, and sexually harass people through online and social media accounts. Many
researchers have found in their research that there is a positive and direct relationship
between internet uses and social behaviour of the person. The moral behaviour of youths and
implications of antisocial internet behaviour will be investigated in the present work.
Behaviour related to the internet uses is almost similar to the social behaviour of our daily
life. There are many illegal and anti-social activities performed by youth generation with the
help of the internet which is a major concern. Some of the concerns may minor effect on our
society while some of their activities badly affect the society.
One of the major issues that is found that large number of young students are involved in
cyber bullying where they blackmail and harass people via social networking sites.
Cybercrime and hacking people's account with the help of the internet is a major concern
where large numbers of young students are involved in cyber theft. Cohen-Almagor (2018)
said in his article that our young generation is using so much time on the internet and social
networking sites. Social networking sites are the key links of connecting people and establish
a relationship. However, with these channels our young generation involved in many
cybercrimes and frauds with people. Social media provide a platform to establish a fraud
relationship with other people and bullying other people on same social network site. Shin
and Lwin (2017) stated in their article that the scope of cyberbullying is increasing every day
because of the excessive use of internet all around the world. Young people post a worst
comment or libellous comments about a certain person or community. It not only affects the
mental and psychological health of that person rather a sensitive message can also cause riots
among people in different community people who belong to different religions. However, it
shows that these young people and adolescent are not culturally developed in the society or
their moral value was not evaluated by themselves or their family members.