Life Retooling Life in Perpetual Beta

My Letter to Facebook

I just emailed to legal@facebook.com the following:
I know you are a business.

I know you need to make a buck.

However, just because someone adds something to your network, doesn't give you ownership.

Fortunately, I have not posted any links, or uploaded any content that I would consider my own private property. 3 photos I can deal with.

I'm am writing to you on behalf of the other thousands of people who promote their work. These people trusted Facebook would be a place that would respect peoples intellectual property, since the company was built originally for colleges and universities. Places where free thought is encouraged and not owned by those schools.

Look to your roots, Facebook, and take a chapter from the environment that gave you your start.

I hope you reconsider.

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It's short, sweet and to the point. I don't think I was too off base with my message. At least, I hope that I was correct enough in my assumption.

I was going to use Facebook as one of the places I was going to promote Life Retooling, once I had something to promote. Hopefully, I will be able to when the time comes. Right now, it doesn't look like it.

To those who have their IP in the hands of Facebook, my heart goes out to you. The only way that sites like Facebook have any value is when the people can trust that the site is not going to take advantage of them.