[user104658]

Has anyone noticed this? It's... Odd. Unsettling, almost, given the usual post sharing and viral-picture-changing that goes on. I'm just wondering WHY there has been so little response to this compared to other recent attacks, including previous attacks in France?

Do you think it's something specific to do with this attack? A lot of people don't seem to realise it wasn't an accident.

OR has the "casual empath" simply reached saturation point over the last few months, and become completely desensitised to news like this?

Dare we even call it... Boredom?

And if so, what does that mean about the quality of the sympathy that has been offered previously?

[Rob!]

Dunno where you're looking but it was all over Twitter

[Crimson Dynamo]

There are only so many things you can colour in red white and blue

[bots]

people do become de-sensitised to their environment, its a fundamental survival mechanism. Its impossible to keep being shocked every time something awful happens. It doesn't make the event itself any less awful.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

people do become de-sensitised to their environment, its a fundamental survival mechanism. Its impossible to keep being shocked every time something awful happens. It doesn't make the event itself any less awful.

Agree with this plus usually we would still have Nice dominating the news but the attempted coup in Turkey suddenly became the main headline. Most newspapers only had their coverage of Nice this morning by which time the world was focused on Turkey

[Northern Monkey]

what they^ said

[user104658]

Facebook etc is hardly on fire over Turkey either, though. I'm not saying it isn't there, but compared to other similar recent events the "hype" for want of a better word, is just not there. I've seen a few people mentioning having noticed this and I definitely am - to the extent that I went to the pages of the "Usual people" who are normally all over these stories on my feed to see if I'd just missed what they posted. But, nothing.

I think it is just because there has been too much lately and I really want to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume that they're just numb / fatigued by it all... But a large part of me suspects that it's simply, for want of a better term, going "out of trend" to post rants / condolences etc. over these world events. The viral images, profile picture overlays, etc.

What bothers me I guess is that a lot of people's outpourings of "grief" in the past amount to little more than plastic "me too!" bull****. Not many people seem to ACTUALLY care. It's just been fashionable to act like it?

[bots]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Facebook etc is hardly on fire over Turkey either, though. I'm not saying it isn't there, but compared to other similar recent events the "hype" for want of a better word, is just not there. I've seen a few people mentioning having noticed this and I definitely am - to the extent that I went to the pages of the "Usual people" who are normally all over these stories on my feed to see if I'd just missed what they posted. But, nothing.

I think it is just because there has been too much lately and I really want to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume that they're just numb / fatigued by it all... But a large part of me suspects that it's simply, for want of a better term, going "out of trend" to post rants / condolences etc. over these world events. The viral images, profile picture overlays, etc.

What bothers me I guess is that a lot of people's outpourings of "grief" in the past amount to little more than plastic "me too!" bull****. Not many people seem to ACTUALLY care. It's just been fashionable to act like it?

i only saw one reference to Nice, expressing sympathy, and it got loads of responses ... what about the poor people that die in muslim cities every day. Under those circumstances I understand people not wanting to get into arguments about it.

[user104658]

I get that, if it was the norm... It's more the difference that's noticeable when compared to, say, Orlando or Charlie Hebdo.

[Josy]

There's been a lot about it on my time lines

[Cherie]

119 people including a lot of kid were blown up in Baghdad two weeks ago, it hardly got a second glance, France is becoming like Iraq now, we are getting desensitised to it, it will take something on home soil to get the hashtags going

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Facebook etc is hardly on fire over Turkey either, though. I'm not saying it isn't there, but compared to other similar recent events the "hype" for want of a better word, is just not there. I've seen a few people mentioning having noticed this and I definitely am - to the extent that I went to the pages of the "Usual people" who are normally all over these stories on my feed to see if I'd just missed what they posted. But, nothing.

I think it is just because there has been too much lately and I really want to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume that they're just numb / fatigued by it all... But a large part of me suspects that it's simply, for want of a better term, going "out of trend" to post rants / condolences etc. over these world events. The viral images, profile picture overlays, etc.

What bothers me I guess is that a lot of people's outpourings of "grief" in the past amount to little more than plastic "me too!" bull****. Not many people seem to ACTUALLY care. It's just been fashionable to act like it?

...(not that I do social media so don't know any levels of response there..)...but my thoughts would be that, that's exactly it though, TS, rather than a 'going out of trend'....I think that the lack of posting is maybe more an indication of how many losses of lives there has been to absorb of recent times...and we've also had the shocking and brutal killing of Jo Cox so recently as well...I also think that maybe the general despondency/dispiritedness of many people in the uncertain times and thoughts after the Brexit vote may have some bearing as well...?...it's not so much that these things aren't felt and felt just as deeply but more that the layer upon layer, type thing has worn down spirits..?...while people are having their 'rants' on social media and being vocal, they're showing a spirit/a strength of spirit, a 'togetherness' even, maybe..?...so a good and 'healthy' sign and one that we would want to see...much more worrying, I think..(but not because there is no longer a 'trend..'..)... is as you say, when there is numbness and when all goes more quiet...because to me that's possibly showing a 'infectious depression' type feeling..?...

[the truth]

simply because the scum running the EU refuse to acknowledge they need urgently close and tighten all borders. no one will say it and anyone who does will be called a racist by the uber evil corrupt EU rulers who hide behind their perverted version of political correctness

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by the truth

simply because the scum running the EU refuse to acknowledge they need urgently close and tighten all borders. no one will say it and anyone who does will be called a racist by the uber evil corrupt EU rulers who hide behind their perverted version of political correctness

Exactly and its not political correctness because they have some great compassion,It's a mask of political correctness to push their Eurabian super state agenda.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Has anyone noticed this? It's... Odd. Unsettling, almost, given the usual post sharing and viral-picture-changing that goes on. I'm just wondering WHY there has been so little response to this compared to other recent attacks, including previous attacks in France?

Do you think it's something specific to do with this attack? A lot of people don't seem to realise it wasn't an accident.

OR has the "casual empath" simply reached saturation point over the last few months, and become completely desensitised to news like this?

Dare we even call it... Boredom?

And if so, what does that mean about the quality of the sympathy that has been offered previously?

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had a problem with a fraction
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