Facebook contributing to a flare-up of syphilis? Really? Ridiculous.
Now coming back to edit my posts from the beginning of the quarter, I've really been influenced by my group project and the effect of online communities and their relationship with the physical world. Although my project on Yelp focussed on the mutualistic relationship of the two, this article is referencing the exact opposite. The internet and the physical world create a never ending circle; one is always going to be influencing the other. I can't help but think back to this quote from the "Mutilated Furries" article: “In the end, no matter what they say, life on the Internet really is a serious business. It matters. But the tricky thing is that it matters above all because it mostly doesn't — because it conjures bits of serious human connection from an oceanic flow of words, pictures, videoclips, and other weightless shadows of what's real. The challenge is sorting out the consequential from the not-so-much.” The availability of contact with other people on Facebook is what caused the firsthand intimate interactions leading to the flare-up, but not the STI itself.
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