Can You Catch An STD From Facebook?

The Sun has given us a modern answer to the old joke, “Can you catch STDs from a toilet seat?” They published a story yesterday quoting the director of Public Health for NHS in Tees, England, as saying Facebook and other social networking sites are to blame for an increase in syphilis in the area because the sites make it easier for people to meet up for casual sex. That’s ridiculous. Facebook may be responsible for a lot of bad spelling, the decline of punctuation and capitalization, bad acronyms like TMI, TMI, and lots of bad quizzes no one should ever take, but a rise in syphilis? Of course it depends on what you’re doing while you’re on Facebook…

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