Social Networking Becomes the Detection of Disease

Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter is being developed into a system to detect the spread of disease by a company from Baltimore, United States. The goal, to create a warning of outbreaks and help prevent the spread.

The system named Sickweather it will track the status of people from the words associated with the disease. Then based on the location of the person can make a map of the disease.

For now, the new developers to build tools for social networking site which currently has a large, Sickweather further development company hopes to create its own social networking site. "This system is useful for young families who have children who are vulnerable to disease," said CEO Sickweather told Technology Review.

Ideas like Sickweather there have been, even in a wider scale. HealthMap system tracks the search engine and news on the Internet to create a map of the spread of disease throughout the world. Sickweather has a similar approach. Only, they use social networking sites, not news networking site.