In what may be the new frontier of online social networking, a Web site is being launched that purports to help online daters verify the sexual health of prospective partners.
Checktonight.com will issue a digital stamp of approval to site subscribers who have tested free of any of five sexually transmitted diseases, a level of disclosure that is seen by some as a predictable innovation in Internet use and by others as a move that is potentially troubling from the perspective of personal privacy, sexual behaviour and possibly the privacy of health records.
"We're talking about this because it's kind of like a new frontier -- it's saying look at how sexual health is coalescing with a Web service that allows people to verify their sexual test records," says Jesse Hirsh, a Toronto-based Internet analyst.
"Last year was You Tube and My Space, people started using the Internet the way it should be used.... Now people are using [the Internet] in a much more interactive way."
We suppose that’s one way of putting it.
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"Last year was You Tube and My Space, people started using the Internet the way it should be used....
To troll for anonymous sex?
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