Curious, how Facebook must have a love-hate relationship with its users (as I think many of its users have with it). Arguably FB’s survival depends on its users *using* it, not on them trusting it or even enjoying it (i.e., admitting its relative convenience). But gosh, when the NYTimes kicks you in the pants, that’s kind of a big deal. It’s interesting for sure, watching this and other web-related legal issues unfold.

As for millennial internet attitudes and behaviors, *guh*–don’t get me started.

Don’t know if this one showed up on your radar, but it’s an hilarious and tragic case illustrating linking as license and intellectual property. A law firm took legal action, pressuring a site which linked to its own to cut it out. “Trademark dissolution” was their complaint over an everyday hyperlink. “This is how the Internet works,” to quote your manifesto. Anyway, a massively uninformed judge caused it to go into settlement rather than to be thrown out.

I read this a bunch of places last week and last fall when it first came up, but the only one I can find again now is Ars Technica’s: http://tinyurl.com/b389gt

The thing about internet privacy is that generationally, it is becoming unexpected and something to be suspicious ABOUT. Millenials think if you don’t want something on the internet, you are ashamed of it or have something to hide.

Not true, teenyboppers, it actually is none of your business what I am doing right this very second.

Luckily, laws change slowly and usually only by grown-ups (who sometimes think the internet is…a series of tubes…). But there’s Facebook, ready to push every boundary to the maxxx.

Pushing back. Forever.