Has anybody who has FB noticed this?

[maryellen99]

When the French attacks happened everybody had French Flags and posts about praying for the victims but for this no rainbow flags and no prayers.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. My friend has a rainbow temporary profile picture.

Maybe it will be more universal by tonight.

[Agschmid]

2. All the people I know are posting about it, and have changed their images etc.

[Shemp Howard]

3. I expected something on Google's homepage

but nothing so far.

[kayakjohnny]

6. They had a small black ribbon earlier this morning.

There was a condolence message to the victims and families and the city of Orlando.

But it's been removed for some reason.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. The black ribbon comes up on my computer on google homepage.

And now, (9:05 CDT) the ribbon is gone. Puzzling.

[mrmpa]

32. It's still there if you hover your cursor over the black ribbon....n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

11. They have a tiny black ribbon.

They don't want to upset their users who agree with the killer and the killer's philosophy by doing anything large.

[left-of-center2012]

14. They have this, since yesterday

[Shemp Howard]

24. The ribbon was not there earlier today,

at least on my browser. But, yes, it is there now.

[malaise]

4. Why would the American right wing pray for

Gays or Latinos -or those who died in that Planned Parenthood Building attack think long and hard.
That's a fugging trifecta for the RWs which is why I am shaking my head all now.

[maryellen99]

5. I agree I think a lot of them are intentionally ignoring the fact that the victims were LGBT nt

[BooScout]

8. I have the rainbow flag with the candle as my profile pic on FB right now...

And yes....I have noticed the silence on FB and the lack of any symbols of support. There have been some, but nothing like the Paris attacks.

I would also like to see more visible symbols at DU.

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. I saw this on Facebook......

[LWolf]

9. I immediately

put a rainbow flag at half mast on my FB page. I've seen plenty of others.

[oberliner]

10. No

I am seeing tons of FB posts with prayers for the victims and scores of people who have put up rainbow flags.

[HughBeaumont]

12. Honestly, I don't think a big ENOUGH deal is being made about this.

I blame the worthless Boehner congress for doing absolutely nothing after Sandy Hook and you can bet the Ryan congress will follow suit in doing shit. We politicized kids being killed to protect "The Precious" and did nothing to make health care (mental health care) more affordable and accessible and did nothing to get AR15s out of the hands of citizens.

[maryellen99]

13. Amen nt

[MisterP]

23. it's like I said, nothing will be done

Malala Yousafzai has made more inroads with the people who shot her than with the NRA

[JustAnotherGen]

15. Yes - but I have a rainbow flag with a candle

I didn't do that for the Paris attacks though. These are my fellow country men murdered in cold blood in an act of hate by another person of my country. Shame on anyone who turns their back on their own - while crying for others.

And yes - I'm 'watching' people and I've now unfriended 7 since yesterday late morning. I don't have tons and tons of people on there so it is pretty easy for me to just get rid of anyone who I would be ashamed to be affiliated with in any way, shape, or form.

[maryellen99]

16. Yep something tells me if this was a white straight club or movie theater

The reaction would be way different.

[Raster]

17. Of course it would. In certain circles, rampant homophobia is accepted AND PREACHED...

...on a regular basis.

IMHO, it appears that the three Abrahamic-based religions tend to have more problems with sexual issues than other religions and creeds. No small coincidence that these three religions are testosterone fueled, patriarchal centered, and rife with male privilege.

[Brickbat]

18. GLAAD has a filter people can add.

[OriginalGeek]

19. I see a lot of people with some version of the Pulse logo

then again, I live here and so do most of my FB friends so I'm probably seeing more than most would.


Found out this morning one of my co-workers was a victim. I didn't know him but the department he was in is pretty devastated. Lots of places like that this morning I imagine.

[Behind the Aegis]

20. I noticed.

Most of the changes I saw were gay people themselves. I saw a few remarks about it. I wrote that people changed their profile pics when it was France and Belgium, they should do it now for Orlando.

[maryellen99]

21. I did on mine and I'm the only one and lot of people did it for marriage equality

I don't understand is it because people believe it wasn't an anti gay hate crime?

[Lucinda]

22. My feed is full of support...but my peeps are an artsy lot with strong ties to the

LGBT community.

[closeupready]

25. Facebook, I'm discovering, is good for remembering why you left home

in the first place, but not good for almost anything else.

[Mike Nelson]

26. Saw a lot of support on my...

...newsfeed. I did not receive a "change you profile pix" offer from facebook like the French attack, but I was on facebook more often then.

[nolabear]

27. I was given, and took, the rainbow flag option.

[swhisper1]

28. I've noticed that among all my friends on facebook, it is the ultra religious who post daily

my atheist friends (including me) rarely post or even visit, and only to share a funny cartoon or serious social vid. It is always the cat ladies, cooks and red neck raging Repugs that fill my page. My gay friends don't post, they skype me face to face.

I conclude that FB is a social experiment. I told my Trump friends to de-friend me, but they have now gotten over trump and are solid Bernie's or Johnson's. If you look carefully at FB friends, does that seem to be the norms?

Of my acquaintances, the religious are like dogs that have to constantly have someone to touch, fearful of change and non religious that constantly tell me they love me.

My atheist friends share , join up for hikes, concerts, but do not demand 24 hr attention. My gay friends love me for my choices in life, do not judge me and make the best roommates. I prefer their company over bias straights.

My rich friends want to know the famous champion that was me, use me and give false concern and friendship, after all, I am a woman, with more knowledge and intelligence but am not wealthy like them so am not invited into their circle.

With your observation Maryellen, I just went to my page and every post has a sad rainbow. I hope that makes you feel better

[2theleft]

30. My feed is full of changed profiles.

Either the one I have on here now, a rainbow flag at 1/2 mast, the Pulse logo, or something similar. Although, I do ensure that I am only "friends" with people who's posts won't piss me off. Others that friend me that don't fit into that category go into the acquaintance bucket and I rarely see their stuff.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

31. Several people on my feed have added rainbow flags

Not a single conservative has, though

[Hassin Bin Sober]

33. Yeah. I have and it's really bumming me out.

More support is trickling in today but yesterday really made me sad.

I posted about the massacre on my feed first thing in the morning and... nothing.

Friend's were posting about their gardens and sports and here I am sitting at home almost in tears.

The first response I got was my partner's freeper sister grinding her ax about the Muslims.