Sad real-world news

[cleolinda]

Between a massive explosion and a shooting at a Labour Party youth camp, 92 dead in Norway attacks. The victim count has been rising as recovery efforts continue. At the moment, 85 deaths, mostly kids, have been reported from the island camp alone.

Norway attacks: latest developments being added on CNN.com; Norway attacks: ‘A nightmare,’ PM says;

Comments

[coldclarity]

I'm on a very similar count. We need new friends.

[coldclarity]

Exactly. I get that it's not a competition and you can be sad about more than one thing at once, but there was no sense of that at all. Humph. I'll be over here being a grumpy old woman.

[malady579]

More Americans have hears Winehouse's music than could place Norway on a map. What is far away is abstract. It is quite sad.

[profbutters]

Mine don't have anything about Norway yet, but to be fair, they don't have anything about Amy Winehouse, either. Most of the people I know use it to announce events or exchange photos from events they already attended.

[keleri]

Similar with my FB, one about Norway and 5 so far about Winehouse.

[newbia]

I wouldn't interpret the data from your Facebook barometer as meaning that people care more about Amy Winehouse than Norway. It's just that the news from Norway is so stupendously horrific, that people don't even know how to talk about it. I myself would not post about it on Facebook, because I can't even deal with thinking for long about kids being shot on an island like some kind of insane horror movie. Amy Winehouse is a lesser tragedy, and we all saw it coming anyway, so it's easier to deal with and discuss with other people.