Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think if facebook starting marketing our "Brand" our likeness our thoughts needs desires and pix to sell whatever product we happened to mention it would slow down after it got hit by about ten thousand lawsuits actions the 24 hours of it and a third of their clientele dropped off. I think there is a faction who feels very threatened by Facebook and overreacts to it and its potential threat to their precious bodily fluids. A darned same one of these groups happens to be the ASMP they've seemed very centered, organized and not off the deep end. Its not a matter of how easy it would be to prosecute FB for using your intellectual property of any ilk its a matter of how the headlines read with little pix underneath of dozens of red faced photographers and normal people who would now all of a sudden be now ripped off by the now demonic Mark Zuckerberg who is making real all of the lurking suspicious we've had about him all this time. He's way too rich isn't he and his hair is way to red and curly and his smile too big. I think Mr. Z knows which hand is feeding him (the world) and is way too smart to piss off this clientele (the world). A test stab is one thing but its another to have such things really happen. He's way to smart to weather the PR nightmare S*&T storm such ridiculous wanton ripping off of people we are supposed to be paranoid about would bring on to the Facebook "Brand". As in people dropping out or pulling their pix and other stuff off. Myself and plenty of people would LOVE it if one of my pix showed up somewhere making money for Mr. Z and not me as they'd get a lawsuit so fast it would make their head spin. Why work when you can gleefully sue now proven demonical billionaires and easily win that's what I say? Though I think it would be hard to get a lawyer because by then all of them would have full workloads of other such lawsuits from the mad masses of people who wake up earlier than I do with the same no doubt issue. I'm going to do the smart thing by continuing to use the immense capabilities of Facebook and not pull out until it appears evident MZ has sprung himself a brain tumor and is ready to fully shoot himself in the foot. As I'm sure he has high tech diagnostic devices in the middle of the west wing of his combine house living system I doubt that is going to happen. Most not all of the people who keep Facebook at a big limited arms length are the same ones who otherwise marginalize themselves constantly with anti social personality you name it modes of behavior. The facebook paranoia syndrome is a big red flag on that.. . The non people people. -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/