Bizarre Stats: More Facebook Users, More Sexually-Transmitted Diseases

A study made by health experts indicates that Facebook is linked to the raise and resurgence of sexually-transmitted diseases in a large area in the UK.

“Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex.” says Professor Peter Kelly, director of public health in Teesside. The study remarks that one of the diseases that increased lately in this area (Sunderland, Durham and Teesside) is syphilis. Professor Kelly said “Syphilis is a devastating disease. Anyone who has unprotected sex with casual partners is at high risk. There has been a fourfold increase in the number of syphilis cases detected with more young women being affected.”

The particularity of this area is that, shown in the report, people that live there are 25% more likely to use social networking sites that the rest in Britain.

Ok, I can see some kind of link between social networking sites and having “casual sex”, but still the decision for people to meet strangers and not having the necessary sexual precautions, still is a matter of the people involved and not the actual site.