[Rants] World Tragedies, News, and Social Media

[lizfu]

When the 8.9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck Japan, my Facebook and Twitter feeds were flooded with both news and support for the nation. When the Casey Anthony trial ended with a verdict of not guilty, both feeds were blowing up with indignation and shock (with a few posts pointing out the facts of the trial and how the state of Florida had kinda fucked this one up). Yesterday, a bomb is detonated around government buildings in Oslo, Norway, and not too long after on a nearby island, a right wing Christian fundamentalist posing as a police officer opened fire on a youth camp, killing 84 (and counting) teenagers, who ran into the woods or dove into the sea to try to escape. Twitter was practically on fire with news (okay, this might be an exaggeration - even Twitter was a little slow in taking it up), but on my Facebook feed, there was nothing but the usual narcissism.

What the fuck?

I posed this observation on Facebook, and so far a majority of the replies have been, "Well, it was all over the news, so everybody had already heard about it." So there was no need to post anything about it, not even sympathy?

Ugh.

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[firedreamer]

The thing about the WoW playing. It just goes to show you, people can seem nice.......