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Is there a name for this mental disorder? 

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Has Facebook inadvertently exposed the flaw at its heart? An application that allows people to tag fellow users with a joke gift such as anorexia, schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder has been roundly condemned by mental health charities. But this joke gift viral says more about Facebook users than it does about Facebook itself, who make it a policy not to monitor applications created by individual members. What this reveals in the Facebook member who’s created this application is a worrying pathology - and probably not untypical of those who lose a grip on reality by mistaking social grazing for meaningful relationships . It’s not that making a gift of mental illness is ‘tasteless’. It really wouldn’t offend me if someone sent me a bumper fun-pack of dementia, bulimia and agoraphobia all tied up with a ribbon and bow– it would just complete the set. But playing with mental illness isn’t that funny, shocking or subversive either. Just a bit sad. Which demonstrates just how severely out of touch with human beings some Facebook users have become. Whilst this user has managed to catalogue most mental illnesses, they’ve crucially left one out – call it Dissociative Facebook Abuse Disorder.
Published Mar 12 2009, 11:10 AM by Dan Douglass

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