You've Got Mail... And Maybe an STD, Too
Web Site Lets People Warn Someone Anonymously After a Sexual Encouter
By BRIAN ROONEY
Dec. 16, 2005 †™ ¢‚¬„¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¢†™‚¢‚¢¢¢‚¬Å¡‚¬¦‚¡¢‚¬Å¡‚¬†™‚¢‚¢¢¢¬…¡‚¬? The same generation that's using the Internet to find dates is also using the Web to tell their partners they may have taken away something more than a nice memory from their romantic encounter.
The Los Angeles County Health Department has established a Web site, www.inSpotLA.org/, targeted mostly toward gay men, which allows users to inform their sexual partners that they may have been exposed to disease.
Featured on the site is a selection of electronic greeting cards with a variety of chatty greetings to choose from: "There's something I need to tell you."
"It's not what you brought to the party, it's what you left with."
And there's the payoff line: "I got an STD, and you might have it too."
LA County's Director of Public Health, Dr. Jonathan Fielding, said, "It does not give people a diagnosis. All it does is tell somebody that they may have been exposed and they should get tested." (continues...)
Some critics have questioned whether this is the best way to tell someone they might have been exposed, particularly to HIV. But, "The best thing is for people to disclose," said Karen Mall of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. "That's the message."
From: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=1415206
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I just saw this. Oh My God!!! Can you imagine getting one of those emails? You'd think it was a bad practical joke! At least I would. Just the sort of thing my kid brother would try and pull.
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lol...if it didn't cost anything that would be an awesome joke to play on someone
"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?"
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Thats one of the funniest things I've seen today. Did anyone else notice what it said on the site?
QUOTEPlease respect the community and don't use these cards to spam.
QUOTEPlease respect the community and don't use these cards to spam.
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