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Website Offers Messaging Service About Exposure to STDs

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Some time ago, DontSpreadIt​.com drew my attention. The site offers a new way to share infor­mation about sex­ually trans­mitted dis­eases (STDs). The service is run by an enter­prising 2-​​​​man man­agement team, of the cor­porate entity Buckley Inno­va­tions, LLC.

From the home page:

Need to tell somebody they may have been exposed?

Sending a message is fast, free and 100% anonymous!

Could be useful, I suppose, although I don’t know how indi­viduals on the receiving end of this king of missive would feel about it. Plus, it might be prone to pranks — seems easy to tell a “friend” they’ve been exposed to, say, gon­orrhea, crabs or some­thing untreatable.

The site offers a “Help with STDs” menu that pro­vides links to Planned Par­enthood, the WHO, the CDC, and a zip-​​​​code based clinic finder.  There’s also infor­mation on spe­cific STDs; the sources are varied.

The real question is whether this sort of sen­sitive per­sonal medical news needs or should

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