Sex and Social Networking

sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 2 weeks (www.sciencebase.com)

Studies have shown that social networking is a risk factor for catching a sexually transmitted disease (but only real-world social networking; LinkedIn is okay). However, this seems to be more of a result of an understanding of what a social network is than any Internet-induced change in the way people choose sexual partners. Sexually transmitted diseases are by definition (usually) transmitted along intimate social networks.

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Going it alone

annatto submitted, created time 1 year 1 month (www.reutershealth.com)

Some researchers said the online survey of 9,743 adults conducted between October 4-8 showed that some younger people viewed the Internet as their new best friend.Besides one in four Americans has a social networking profile such as MySpace or Facebook, among 18-24 year-olds this is almost mandatory with 78 percent of them having a social networking profile.

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