Swine flu gains sentience, begins social networking

Everything about this is brilliant:

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Well now you know (and knowing is half the battle...)

I think you're making an unfounded assumption in that it requires sentience to use social networks. I'm sure we could find quite a bit of evidence to the contrary (Ashton Kutcher, for example).