The devils advocate

is what I am going to play in this post.  I apologize in advanced if I sound harsh, uncaring, or rude.  Today, a terrible event occurred at the Boston Marathon.  There was a bombing in which two people were killed and dozens were hurt.  If you didn't hear this news, you must have not checked any social networks yet, because it is EVERYWHERE on them right now.

The number of Facebook posts and tweets about the marathon bombing today were crazy.  I am trying as hard as I can to put this in a soft way, but how many of those 50 plus Facebook friends of mine who posted statues about the bombing actually have a genuine, emotional connection with the event?  How many of them took time to read up on what actually happened?  How many of them just posted a Facebook status because everyone else was doing it?  

I came across a great quote on Pinterest once.  It said "We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."  We are constantly invaded by media news and stories.  However, I feel like society is starting to become desensitized by the quick, brief, and not very informative news that is shown to us over Facebook and Twitter.  Yes, we all saw the information that our new feeds and Twitter pages, but is that enough?

I am not really sure exactly what I am getting at here.  I just wish that grief didn't sometimes appear as a "jump on the bandwagon" sort of event, for lack of a better term.