Sunday, November 15, 2015

The Facebook lemming phenomenon.

Today I've had it and I need to log out of Facebook for a day or two. There are things that have bothered me since the Paris massacre such as why is Paris getting no -stop coverage when Beirut had two suicide bombers detonate in a crowd killing 47 and injuring many others (also by IS) and a month ago on October 19 100 people were killed in Ankara at a Pewce rally for crying out load by a suicide bomber by there is nothing. No news. No social media outpouring of affection and solidarity to either one of those countries.

Now I'm seeing people posting news articles from April 2015 about a horrid massacre at Garissa University College in Kenya where 147 people were killed by Al-Shabaab anther extremist Islam faction. The thing that's getting to me is that people are posting this like it happened right after Paris. It didn't. Please know your timelines of horrific events. If you knew nothing about this until now you should be angry about that as much as the fact that it happened. People need to seek out news and not wait for it to be tied up in a nice package and delivered to you by CNN or BBC. Go search it out, don't look at only the news sections that apply to you like the US or Europe. Expand your god damned mind and look at the whole world and stop relying on others to tell you what is going on in it.