Facebook 'linked to rise in syphilis'

[zridling]

"A Facebook spokesman said: users should "take precautions" and be careful when meeting up with anyone they have met online."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7508945/Facebook-linked-to-rise-in-syphilis.html



Who knew that banging just anyone wouldn't be totally safe?   (picture unrelated; I just liked it)

[app103]

Interesting twist to this story: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/03/25/facebook-shorthand-scandal/

Seems "facebook" has become a generic synonym for "social media site" for news sites looking for more traffic.

[Eóin]

... and ignore the difference between correlation and causation.

This is even more important to me than using Facebook as a generic synonym as it represent conscious deceit on behalf of journalists and media to misinform the public. Correlation does not imply causation!

[app103]

... and ignore the difference between correlation and causation.

This is even more important to me than using Facebook as a generic synonym as it represent conscious deceit on behalf of journalists and media to misinform the public. Correlation does not imply causation!

Yes, it does! And any news site caught doing that loses all credibility in my eyes. I'm not even sure I will cut some slack to the sites that didn't know and repeated the claims. If you are reporting news, you are supposed to check the facts and not just repeat what other news sources report and take it as truth, assuming they checked their facts and therefore you don't have to.

[Stoic Joker]

Right, so who are the Vulcan looking make-out twins in the far left corner?

[zridling]

Remember, most traditional media sees the "internets" as a threat. Just as spurious polls are headlined daily -- "Salt will cut 15 years off your life!" "Eggs will cause heart disease!" -- it further reinforces the notion not to trust anything online as real or true.

Too bad the internet keeps an archive!

[40hz]

Wow.

Good to know.

(And to think all this time I was blaming Canada.)  

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[40hz]

Right, so who are the Vulcan looking make-out twins in the far left corner?

Hey! Isn't that T'Prynn and Delvok - Surak's daughter & T'Mir's son?

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P.S. I don't know about the rest of you - but I find photos like the above to be seriously weird.