Social Networking & Depression


	Social Networking & Depression

fauxpress

3-27-2008 7:50 AM

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depression, social networking, data

fauxpress says:

A new social networking site - http://www.patientslikeme.com - dedicated to collecting grassroots / crowdsourced data, statistics, charts, medical metrics. The site bucks the MSM-promoted privacy-before-all-else-for-fear-of-identity-theft or death by pervert trend.

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