SOCIAL NETWORKING AS FACEBOOK LINKED TO RISE IN STDS !!!!!!

[Daanyeer]

Social networking linked to rise in STDs: How health experts blame Facebook for making it easier to find casual sex

By Daily Mail Reporter

20th May 2011



A rise in sexually transmitted diseases among teens and young adults could be attributed to social networking websites, a report has suggested.
Health experts said a recent spike in STDs in America may be due to users letting their guards down before meeting someone in person.
They also said online social networking can make it easier to move on to multiple partners before learning about their sexual history.

According to Florida's Seminole County Health Department (SCHD), there has been a 200 per cent rise in Syphilis cases within the last year.

Chlamydia, experts say, is also the rise, with three to four million new cases occurring each year.

Comparatively, 50 per cent of all Americans are expected to contract Human Papillomavirus (HPV) at some point in their lives.
One in six Americans, or 16 per cent, have herpes. Ninety per cent, however, are unaware they have it.
Health officials said they are seeing patients ages 14 to 24 most often.

SCHD disease intervention specialist Preston Boyce told ClickOrlando.com: 'They're using the social networks. They're not talking to their parents, and they're hooking up with people that they really don't know anything about.

'They're contracting diseases, and then they go their separate ways.

'There wasn't a bond that was developed in the first place, so they're just meeting people, and that bond wasn't there so it's easy to walk away after the first time.'
Orlando mother Teresa Gwinn said she closely monitors her 13-year-old son online.
Despite being savvy on social networks, she is concerned sites such as Facebook could easily lure teenagers into potentially health hazardous situations.
She told ClickOrlando.com: 'I'm concerned about who he talks to and what is being said or who he hangs out with.'
Talking to her teenager, she admitted, can be difficult.

She explained: 'I think he gets a little uncomfortable when those conversations come up but I think most teenagers do.'
Health officials at SCHD are now hosting a programme aimed specifically at educating teenagers about STDs each Wednesday afternoon to aide the problem.



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[Nabeela]

What do you think is gonna happen, when you hook up with strangers from waaji book and have sex with them?

[Sir-Luggoyo]

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease, is there any other form of syphilis? Back in the days and even now, I hear old timers claiming to be suffering from Syphilis without any embarassment. They make it look like "anger problem" or something like that.
Waxaad maqlaysaa oday weyn oo ku leh Isfiilitaan qabaa, ama isfiilitaa igu kacsan, wtf is that?

[Monsieur]

Do people add strangers on FB?

I don't understand why some people do that. Maybe just to increase the number of friends in their list.

[Daanyeer]

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease, is there any other form of syphilis? Back in the days and even now, I hear old timers claiming to be suffering from Syphilis without any embarassment. They make it look like "anger problem" or something like that.
Waxaad maqlaysaa oday weyn oo ku leh Isfiilitaan qabaa, ama isfiilitaa igu kacsan, wtf is that?

Sir,

I THINK there is only ONE Syphills which coukld be under othres can be transmitted through SEX. I think also one of it's syptoms could be 'easly IRRITABLE' yacnihii qof xanaaq badan.

Daanyeer BEATING his CHEST with his two CENTS !!!!!!!!!!!!