...otherwise known as "this use of technology is just freaking nuts".
Two totally abysmal stories in the news.
The first is a Canadian couple who have canvassed Facebook users to...get this...choose the name for the child. Seriously - as in "no matter what name they come up with - we'll go with it". I'm sure that the $40,000 promised by the sponsor of the event had something to do with it. Sure enough, baby WWW is born and they register the name that "won" the Facebook derby. Say what? Really? And this doesn't concern them that something that will stay with this person for years, was chosen, not by parents, but by a group of strangers?
The second story concerns me even more. The article stated that a US couple who is preggers was trying to decide if they should abort the child or not. They claim that this is legit, that they'll put it to vote. I can't say for certain how legitimate this was, or what became of it, but the second that someone even considers letting strangers decide on life and death...this one rocks me to the core.
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