Facebook Attacks the Little Guys: Lamebook Lawsuit

As social networking gets more and more popular, all of those daily face-palm moments that would normally be forgotten after a week or so are now being cemented in status updates and tweets. A site dedicated to these moments, http://Lamebook.com is facing charges for supposed copyright infringement against Facebook. The reasoning is thin, but apparently this is a common practice for Facebook. They've gone after similarly named sites, such as "Placebook" and "Teachbook" for "making a trade off of Facebook's popularity."

Is Lamebook concerned? Not really, nor do I see a reason for them to be. As much as M-Zuck may think this is illegal, they've never actually taken it to court before. They "threatened" legal action and the sites just gave in, not wanting to deal with the court costs. They tried this with Lamebook, but Lamebook is putting up a fight and forcing them to work for their petty case. Now they're going to court and while they are not infringing upon Facebook's copyright, they DO need help covering the legal costs.

If you want to donate to the site, head over to Lamebook's Legal Fund and give them a few - or a lot. Whichever you prefer.

On another note, it seems that some things have just got out of hand on social networks. There's certain things that just shouldn't be written on an online profile. This one has a mixture of both oddness and very personal information.

Enjoy seeing ridiculous status updates? Keep Facebook from forcing Lamebook offline!