Best Information for Health Educators

It’s one thing to give a social networking website the privilege to access to your personal purchase history (if you so choose), and for you to broadcast the minutiae of your daily activities across a wide circle of virtual busybodies that take the shape of friends and “friends.” It’s another to get into the process of connecting with strangers based on DNA samplings.

Ah well, perhaps those seduced by a young, new network, dubbed Genebase, highlighted by CentreDaily earlier today, will turn out to be better fit to associate with one another via those proverbial six degrees of separation than they would otherwise manage to do by way of those totally primitive madhausen of MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, etcetera.

Chances are Genebase will remain quite limited in population, however, so that whole DNA connection thing might not prove to be a very powerful filter in weeding out the good picks from the bad. So to speak. Because, as it so happens, DNA testing isn’t something anyone can do on the cheap. In fact, curious specimen looking to give Genebase a real go are told that a purchase of $119-238 for a DNA test kit will be required to build up a substantive profile. Yep, a fairly costly initiation fee, wouldn’t you say?

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