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 ?!?!?!
I knew it, and MySpace produces diarrhea, and YouTube cancer.
Some people will do or say ANYTHING to avoid responibility
who's that from the pic?
mikoto? or Yui?
Mouse over, wait for a while..
TADA. ANSWER!?!?!?
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...
I have to buy condoms now to log onto Facebook?!
Yeah that sucks doesn't it. lol
Maybe not, but I heard its compulsory to wear on in FagBook =)
Fapbook indeed
Better change your status to reflect that.