One thing I will say on this is that social media has allowed a huge sense of false accomplishment with the hashtag activism. All the people showing their support for France by having their profile pic temporarily changed to have a faded French flag is great and all, but it does absolutely nothing. People tend to forget that and start to believe that by clicking 'like' and using the right hashtag that they are making a difference when they really aren't.
As far as "well you should be supporting everyone" argument goes, support who you will. Support your friends and neighbors and in turn they shall support you and their other neighbors and then they support their neighbors and so on and so forth. Yes, the things happening all over the world are just as terrible as what happened in Paris. Yes, we all care about that too. You just can't expect us to freak out every time something happens anywhere in the world. As has been said, we can only do so much.
