When did humanity lose all sense of decency?

I know the above statement is vague and I think I already know the answer to my question anyway but there is a reason why I am asking it to begin with. A truly horrible thing happened in my neighborhood a few days ago and I was pretty appalled by the general reaction of the public.

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_{It should be obvious, but these are not the people in question}

I was walking to pick up a take away sandwich from this place in my neighborhood when I turned the corner and all of a sudden this semi-quiet street near my condo was just loaded with people and an ambulance. It was then that I noticed a body on the ground outside of another condo. It was covered with a blanket and their was police and medical people milling about. I didn't linger but it appears as though this person had either jumped or had fallen from a window several floors up. The person was clearly dead.

This is a tragedy in itself of course and it saddens me to think that if this person did in fact jump, that he or she felt as though they had no out but to kill themselves. However, what was also very tragic was the public's reaction to this. It was not a scene of sadness but one of morbid curiosity. I actually saw a few people taking selfies with the corpse and one person even tried to pull back the cover to have a look at the body. They were stopped by police and whistles were being blown to make the crowd back up.

What kind of world has this become where when seeing a tragic accident / suicide the first reaction of some people is to get it on their own social media? What ever happened to compassion and decency? These people were not concerned about what lead to this person being dead but instead they wanted to turn it into a moment for them to "shine" on social media.

I of course did not take a picture and got out of there as fast as I could. I also took a different path back to my condo after getting my sandwich.

Later on that day, word had spread about the incident and people were actually driving from their own homes to get a glimpse of the body or the aftermath. This is taking Stand by Me to another, much more crazy level.

I used to feel as though SE Asia wasn't as wrapped up in social media that the western world is but all of that got tossed out a few days ago. I see that my Vietnamese counterparts are just as wrapped up in the self-indulgent "hey look at me!" culture that has destroyed a lot of society.

I am mostly not a part of social media and things like this just make me feel even moreso as if I have made the correct choice in leaving it behind. I hope that anyone who did post pictures of the victim on their FB or IG get attacked by their friends for doing so. Humanity can suck sometimes and I truly feel as though social media has lead to the overall decay of the human experience.