Facebook “Causes Syphilis”
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Mar 26, 2010 09:02 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Facebook, Internet, Medical, Science, Sites, Statistics, UK
A researcher has claimed Facebook is connected to a rise in syphilis as it is a hotbed of casual sex, unsurprisingly something Facebook angrily denies.
Professor Peter Kelly, a public health official in northern England, found that the Teeside region he is responsible for is the area of Britain with the highest rates of Facebook and SNS usage, and asserts that their research found a link between this usage and a jump in the cases of syphilis the area is experiencing:
“Syphilis is a devastating disease. Anyone who has unprotected sex with casual partners is at high risk.
There has been a fourfold increase in the number of syphilis cases detected with more young women being affected.
I don’t get the names of people affected, just figures, and I saw that several of the people had met sexual partners through these sites.
Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex.”
Facebook scoffs at the claims:
“The assertion that Facebook is responsible for the transmission of syphilis is ridiculous.
Facebook is no more responsible for STD transmission than newspapers responsible for bad vision.”
Rather less convincingly, they claim the site is purely a wholesome family friendly one:
“As Facebook’s more than 400 million users know, our website is not a place to meet people for casual sex – it’s a place for friends, family and co-workers to connect and share.”
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That picture is damn good.
They should have used Firefox as their browser on Facebook.
I use facebook for updates related to games & anime & news.
But blaming facebook for syphilis is a laugh. I think these researchers are lacking sources to back up their project. Yes, facebook do have invitation for sex parties and stuff but it's only the tip of the iceberg.
Even if correlation doesn't mean causation, he is saying that Facebook's popularity has made it much more easier to meet people.
This factor itself is enough to increase "social contact" if you know what I mean?
The same reason why dating websites allow for people meeting up, facebook offers the same thing but it has a much more integrated userbase.
The social contact people have with each other, the more chance of casual sex of course haha. What better way to strike up a false friendship with some person before having casual sex?
"Gee, I'm sorry I cummed in your FACEbook!"
On your keyboard in reality, you mean ?!?!?!
who's that from the pic?
mikoto? or Yui?
Mouse over, wait for a while..
TADA. ANSWER!?!?!?
I knew it, and MySpace produces diarrhea, and YouTube cancer.
Some people will do or say ANYTHING to avoid responibility
FacialBook.
I'm more concerned about the brain damage Facebook causes to our youths.
'brain damage' can be caused because they're stupid by nature.
And one thing parents must educate and care childreen, instead of tv, video game, and stuff on the www.
good get rid of facebook!
face book cause's syphilis? hahaha yeah right, who would believe that bull**** *slips on condom while logging into facebook*
Maybe he should make a link between syphilis and the concentration of filthy bitches in his area.
This is yet another reason people today are cheaper than a chewing gum, and they throw it away as fast also.
There will never be any relationships left where they haven't tainted their bodies with others before.
Mind having an open Coca Cola that everybody have put their dicks on and shaken it and then left it in a warm position without that lid on?
Or the cold unopened Coca Cola.
That's obviously an easy choice.
LOL, correlation doesn't imply causation. That must have been one stupid accusation.
Wait, syphilis still exists in Western nations? I thought we got rid of it with, you know, the advent of penicillin.
It's still here because of people practicing unprotected casual sex and the lack of education about syphilis. You know how many people know of HIV, but quite a number of them have never heard of other STDs e.g. syphilis and chlamydia.
I know facebook esp those stupid ville apps can be an addiction for some which in it's self could be considered a disease but causes syphilis now that is a stretch.
Corrected might be facebook is the syphilis of the internet.
and Syphilis causes Facebook... right
..makes sense now
......and people call this idiot a "professor"...
It's like saying "weapons cause war". No it's not, people cause war. Same thing goes here. Facebook is not responsible for disease, people who are having sex without thinking cause disease. Facebook helps people to find people more easier. It doesn't help them to have sex more frequently...
And they call us socially retarded.
Facebook or SNSs doesn't cause syphilis -- it is people's stupidity does.
well twitter my yahoo so i can google all over your facebook
Is it safe to use facebook and not get syphilis if your antivirus is up to date?
lol, wut?
You all don't need to lie. You all have facebooks. How else are your virgin selves supposed to stalk that girl you've been crushing on but have no chance with? xD
let cleansing begin
look like the health official isn't getting any.
+1 on pic =D
apparently, the people that are hooking up with old friends and school acquaintances are the cause...
10 years down the line, thinking of the hot girl you used to drool over.. you find her on face book.. she has 5 kids and boobs saging like underfilled water balloons.. but hey.. you do her becasue now you can say you done the hot chick from school!
and congradulations.. you have syphilus, and gohnoria, and some otherthings not known to science...
like a good quote.. syphilis is fun to catch! but horrible to live with!
Fucking idiot
facefuck i see the connetion
They forgot to link Yahoo to the common cold, Google to sinus problems and SanCom to excessive onanism (Oh! Wait! That last one might be true).
In order to have money, I need a job. In order to have a job, I need to get up in the morning and get dressed. Therefore, if I get up in the morning and get dressed, I will have money...
You've got to be kidding me. This is almost as ridiculous as blaming pirates for the prospect of global warming (regardless of how humorous it is.)
Go look for the actual sites responsible, you idiotic doctor, and stop blaming a rapidly growing social networking site.
I love the pic for this story. Id hit it, even if it had syphilis...
Social networking is the new HIV
In other diseased news:
No wonder, blame anything you find for individual fail.
I'm not a pedophile, loli mangas made me do it.
I'm not violent, video games turn me into it.
I'm not a hater, my god says it's just wrong.
I'm not a social fail, it's Aspergers.
I'm not a racist, my president says we are better.
Facebook is in denial. I have friends that openly scour facebook for girls to hook up with. People did it on AOL, they did it on Myspace, now they're doing it on Facebook. Social networking and communication of any kind usually leads to hooking up.
Oh my, they should have suggested steps people can take to avoid catching STDs on facebook.
Use a firewall with an up to date antivirus program and never ever play farmville.
Twitter = AIDS?
Perhaps if English men and women started having a better personal hygiene (like washing their privates or at least do not wear the same pair of underwear for a week) they could have better results
Then Facebook should be renamed Syphilisbook.
And since it also sucks balls, it comes with free Herpes, too!
fuck you facebook, you ban people's account just for adding other people to friends.
Craigslist is a place to meet people for casual sex. 4chan is a place to meet people for casual raep and yelling stupid memes out - probably at the same time.
Facebook is a place to find someone to adopt a lost virtual cow that wandered onto your farm, or let everyone know what the personality test said about you...
Facebook? I though you use Craigslist to find people to sleep with.
naah they all are bots
Not anymore apparently.
So, since its Facebook, do I wear a condom on my face or...
I have to buy condoms now to log onto Facebook?!
Yeah that sucks doesn't it. lol
Better change your status to reflect that.
Maybe not, but I heard its compulsory to wear on in FagBook =)
Fapbook indeed
What a laugh!
Don't really blame "Facebook", there used to be (and still are) "Swinger" clubs and other anonymous "Meeting" places for people who still want human "Love" but not the social issues. The UK recently bulldozed a beautiful section of trees because people were meeting there.
More of a 1984 "Anti-Sex League" mentality that raves about stuff like this.
Teesside? I blame chavs...
Denn Watts? I thought you were dead!
Quite absurd, despite not using facebook, since I normally find it pointless.
I have seen the advert on the po*n websites, saying "People call it the "facebook" of sex", and lots of amateur prostitutes pic videos etc. on that websites. Perhaps that facebook of sex website is related to cause syphilis?
I don't see any harm from using facebook.
nightfox is correct loli, the one thing you can't determine is if facebook is making poeple have sex more, or if people who like to have alot of sex already, enjoy using facebook.
Yeah but the difference is that he got data showing people using Facebook to hook up, and is relating it to the rise of popularity in Facebook. I doubt those "Facebook of sex" websites are or ever were popular.
>NightfoxXIII
But it does if they post their pictures and videos on "facebook of sex" website because more people will join them, so its increasing the numbers fourfold and it will continue to increase due to their youth ignorance.
Using venn diagram,
given those who were affected by syphilis, were all users of "facebook of sex".
facebook is not innocent...now
It's a scientist who can't project to the whole. Or maybe he is trying to project that all users of facebook follow his trend?
PROTECT ME FROM THE IMAGINARY RAPIST!
It makes communication easier, strangers can chat each other easier. It's like craigslist or whatever other hookup sites. Facebook is not a hotbed of cavorting sex fiends but it is a den for cavorting sex strangers to meet up.
Facebook will have to read private messages to conclusively say they are family friendly but that'd be a very bad move for them to admit.
@Reizo
And I apologized if I implied that you agree with him. I was just flabbergasted that the researcher could totally direct all that attention to 'facebook'.
For that quote about the increases in cases, I would be like, "Ok yes that is a problem now". Then he just looks into the figures. He also goes to say that 'several' (rather than most) had met through 'social networking sites'. Now other than facebook, there could be a ton of other social networking sites out there but even then they don't cause that much trouble either.
"I don’t get the names of people affected, just figures, and I saw that several of the people had met sexual partners through these sites"
*draws a venn diagram*
given that those who were affected, were the ones who started to post the pictures and videos on "facebook of sex" before, then more people were starting to use that websites so the disease has increased by fourfold now, presumably, it will continue to increase due to the youth ignorance. All done, using clairvoyance.
*sigh* For statistics, correlation DOES NOT equal causation.
Besides, claims like this is ridiculous without direct proof that makes facebook the culprit. Even I don't use it all that much, but this is silly
I never said I agreed with him. This researcher clearly doesn't understand logical fallacies. I've been using Facebook for a long time and never saw anyone using it for sex.
wut u talkin bout? I'm fuckin me monitor right now
That's why people say 90% of world statistics- or just in this case is made up. People always need something to blame so they can forward their agenda to stop something.
I am certain that statisticians always say the truth. Its just that there are many ways to interpret data, such as interpreting mean, median, mode.
"It’s a place for friends, family and co-workers to connect and share."
yeah "connect" and share their STDs
Time to update your antivirus software.
Running that free shit just doesn't cut it anymore.
It's like a condom for you e-penie, right?
I thought that role was filled by your firewall :D
well if you think about it, firewalls keep things in and or out of places while antiviruses deal with it after it's already on your system XD
Yeah, so firewall is the condom, then anti-virus is the PILL?
spermacide maybe? :D
Sounds like burning.
hmm... dunnoo...
but both contraceptives anyway, just a different kind...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2010/03/technophobia_facebook_and_syph.html
tl:dr ver:
"In summary, Professor Kelly's colleague says:
"Our press release was simply trying to highlight the risks of casual sex. We did not make the claim that social networking sites are causing the rise in the incidence of syphilis." "
Nice to see a picture and bio of the person who is going to infect you before they do.
At least you know who to call back and pitch a bitch to.
And you can also spam all his/her friends with warnings. So missusable...
How the hell did this guy become a professor?
Correlation does not mean causation!
This.
Chances are that the "subjects" found to use facebook to hook up would've probably used twitter or some other crap to do the same, assuming facebook had never existed.
That being said, I'm not for or against facebook usage in any manner.
This. But "Facebook correlates with Syphilis" would make a worse headline, I guess.
facebook is not responsible for what you fucks use it for stfu and go control urself
Facebook fag detected!
I've never used Facebook before so i wouldn't know what its like but what the anon says is true...
This is just like the argument that "loli mangas make people pedophiles" or "video games cause people to go out to a mall and open fire"
It's not Facebook but the people who use it for shitty stuff...
I think we should blame God, for like, creating syphilis.
That guy should be fired for being a fucking retard.
holy shit people still use facebook? shit's too old.
LIES. I've been using Facebook for ages, and I've yet to encounter this sex thing you people talk about.
And what about this syphilis thing? Did you try to search for it? Is there any encounters? :3
And what about this syphilis thing? Is there any encounters? :3
serious suggestion: artefact should go through the channel and tag all of the images he likes. dude has impeccable taste.