{"id":6692,"date":"2010-08-25T22:51:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T06:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2010-08-25T22:51:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T06:51:44","slug":"read-any-good-social-networking-sites-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=6692","title":{"rendered":"Read any Good Social Networking Sites Lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/newlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Telephone-Book-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6699\" title=\"Telephone Book 1\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Telephone-Book-1-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Book bloggers beware! Facebook is actually suing to protect &#8220;the distinctive BOOK portion&#8221; of its trademark, starting with sad upstart, &#8220;Teachbook.com&#8221;. What is &#8220;Teachbook&#8221;? A social networking site for teachers. Haven&#8217;t they suffered enough?<\/p>\n<p>I have never been on Facebook. I hate it. Their systematic devaluing of the word &#8220;friend&#8221; is unforgivable and the way in which known idiots publicly pander to non friends to add them to their cache of &#8220;friends&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0&#8211; with zero shame &#8211; borders on the obscene. Now they want to own and systematically devalue the word BOOK, too? \u00c2\u00a0Would Facebook sue the Good Book? Or The\u00c2\u00a0Kelly Blue Book, the phone book, any cookbook or little black book, or God forbid,<em> The Big Book?<\/em> Facebook \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the world&#8217;s most popular social network valued at over $33bn \u00c2\u00a0&#8211; actually owns no trademark on the use of &#8220;book&#8221;. It seems unlikely that the crappy upstart Teachbook would dilute Facebook&#8217;s famous name or cause confusion over which is the real Facebook. Anyway, without the free publicity from this frivilous and obnoxious lawsuit, the woefully rustic Teachbook site most likely would have just faded away in a few months.<\/p>\n<p>In a trademark infringement filing at a district court in California, lawyers for Facebook said\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Teachbook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teachbook.com\/\">Teachbook<\/a> &#8220;rides on the coattails of the fame and enormous goodwill of the Facebook trademark&#8221;, that it &#8220;devalues&#8221; their site.<\/p>\n<p>How do you &#8220;devalue&#8221; something that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worthless?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book bloggers beware! Facebook is actually suing to protect &#8220;the distinctive BOOK portion&#8221; of its trademark, starting with sad upstart, &#8220;Teachbook.com&#8221;. What is &#8220;Teachbook&#8221;? A social networking site for teachers. Haven&#8217;t they suffered enough? I have never been on Facebook. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=6692\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,781],"class_list":["post-6692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-teachbook-facebook","tag-the-phone-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}