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About LinkBacksYet another fine article from the people who write for the daily mail saying how using facebook can cause cancer. article found here
Yet another fine article from the people who write for the daily mail saying how using facebook can cause cancer. article found here
Daily Mail, enough said TBH.
I swear half the stuff they write is made up.
This is the paper that once said clouds cause cancer.
I read a headline with "could raise your risk" rather than "causes". As far as I see it, the two are not exactly the same. 'Causes cancer' would more likely fall into the category of being exposed toa significant amount of ionising EM radiation. Raised risk might simply refer to an increase of one onehundreth of a percent.
Of course, slapping 'cancer' in a headline will grab attention. What we're really looking at here is the reassertion of the little disputed fact that sitting indoors playing about on the computer constantly isn't the key to a healthy life.
i personaly hate facebook anyway
very true, I just found the daily mails approach to it quite amusing. at the end of the day everything causes cancer (more or less) even the body produces a significant amount of its now carcinogensOriginally Posted by Konan555
Life causes cancer. It's a natural thing. It sucks, but it's natural.
The Daily Fail though, that cause something much worse: BRAIN ROT.
The story itself is a fairly interesting article, the idea that by replacing real life social contact with online social contact could have an effect on your physiology.
However, given that the person who'se making the claims is a psychologist, it rather seems like one of those reports that scientists do to get their name into the popular media.
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This is bunny and friends. He is fed up waiting for everyone to help him out, and decided to help himself instead!
I thought Facebook's maximum disease power was chlamydia?
You owe it to yourself to click here really.
You know that daily mail could cause cancer too.
I hate that paper!
and the other half is fiction
In lameness terms, the Daily Mail and Facebook, are of similar standing.
Last edited by Blitzen; 23-02-2009 at 12:02 PM.
Haha very true.
Facebook has provided far more pros in my life than cons, including getting to know some ladies rather better
Sitting at a computer all day and night can cause lots more health issues than just cancer! Heart attack and strokes are also a big issue for those who do not do some daily exercises.
Their was also an article in the Daily Telegraph that stated that regular players of computer games were more likely to take drugs and stop talking to their families and have low self-esteem.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencean...lf-esteem.html
Life itself is a killer, just live it and stop worrying about what everybody else thinks.
Right, but when some failed journalist blurts out crappy headlines like that, rational people are forced to pay attention, because nobody is keen on getting blindsided by a deadly disease they could have prevented.
I cannot believe how utterly detached from reality this article is. They are citing a psychologist, and claiming that the downturn in face-to-face contact (which is not purely the result of facebook) can cause us to act differently (get that man a Nobel prize, please!).
There is nothing in this to suggest even a hint of evidence or causation or bloody connection between cancer and facebook. This is like me saying that when I sneeze, tropical storms happen in Timbuktu.
Daily Mail sucks tbh, is there anything thats true in it?
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