Something to think about before playing with internet memes
Not that any of us ever give them our real email addies, right? Right?
Online Age Quiz Is a Window for Drug Makers
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/technology/internet/26privacy.html?th&emc=th
Takers of the popular online RealAge test are handing out valuable data to drug companies. ... while RealAge promotes better living through nonmedical solutions, the site makes its money by selling better living through drugs. Pharmaceutical companies pay RealAge to compile test results of RealAge members and send them marketing messages by e-mail. The drug companies can even use RealAge answers to find people who show symptoms of a disease - and begin sending them messages about it even before the people have received a diagnosis from their doctors.
Online Age Quiz Is a Window for Drug Makers
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/technology/internet/26privacy.html?th&emc=th
Takers of the popular online RealAge test are handing out valuable data to drug companies. ... while RealAge promotes better living through nonmedical solutions, the site makes its money by selling better living through drugs. Pharmaceutical companies pay RealAge to compile test results of RealAge members and send them marketing messages by e-mail. The drug companies can even use RealAge answers to find people who show symptoms of a disease - and begin sending them messages about it even before the people have received a diagnosis from their doctors.