You don't have to defend yourself for something nobody asks you about. Why do you feel the guilt that you don't mainstream? It's just a little gesture to show awareness like the ice bucket challenge. Here it doesn't mean other illnesses are less important, like ebola which happened to be at the same time. Coloring your Fb picture in the french flag as a sign of condolence. You don't do it because it would mean the other victims are worth less? I wonder why if a misery happens, there are other people which point out things which make you feel worse. Do color your picture every day! Also, you are not affected by it yourself. It's not you or your family on the line, on any side. It's not you who should say look at the other side because tell me have you been doing it constantly? You've been watching and now you're saying "See, told ya!" You are not any better because you say every single human being is important. You know for sure why we are more shocked by Pairs than Beirut.
It's truelly sad that we start caring now, but honestly it has started long ago and the politcians didn't care. It could've been prevented. Just human history is not about being smart, it's about being us. We laugh, we cry and we learn. Mistakes are included. Being human means to show empathy, to take action, to help and to make the world every single day a little better.
Here is my reason why I didnt color mine. It's nonrelevant as writing this: I didn't feel I had to. I simply don't possess the need to express myself. You had to explain why you didn't as if people would bother to think about you and wonder why didnt he/she and I just don't necesarrily care. Not showing that you feel sorry doesnt't mean it doesnt affect you at all. I change my Fb picture very seldomly and I dont post often. I dont change my pic just because fb tells me to, i just simply dont. My free will. You are not bad or good if you do this or that or not..