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There are two Facebook friends I have in particular (both are in the IT field) that have been rapid machine gunfire updating statuses about the situation with the nuclear reactor in Japan. Nearly all of it has been bad news. This does not annoy me because I am insensitive to the dire state of affairs our Far East Friends are in, I just feel like all this social media sensationalism about it is reducing down to pure fear mongering. If I wanted to know about what was going on, I could easily look it up. It's literally all over the news. I don't need to be reminded every time I log into Facebook. 

I just feel like with these advances in technology and the prevalence of social media in our lives, we're setting ourselves up to be less informed and but more fearful because bad news is being shot at us from every direction. When all you see is bad news, you can't help but perceive the world is ending (when really it probably it isn't. If it bleeds, it leads. Bad news always take priority.)
<bot>: I'm not being insensitive to the crises in Japan. I'm just afraid our main outlets for what's going on in the world i.e. social media, the Internet, TV are being reduced to pure fear mongering.