Ownership

What's up with the whole Facebook copyright thing? Of course everything we post on Facebook can be used however, whenever, by whomever. That's part of the whole Facebook, social media, YouTube, GarageBand culture. Write something pithy. Get discovered. Make a movie that is so cute or gross or poignant that everybody shares it. Write your song and have people hear it and share it. If anyone actually thinks that anything they do or say on Facebook can be copyrighted by just declaring it, on facebook none the less, well frankly, it baffles me. It's a public site and lest we forget, it's on the Internet! The place where the whole copyright thing is still being worked out. So yeah, share or don't share, but don't go crying if someone shares what you post. And remember, what might get shared might not be your most flattering work.

And if anyone is really serious about copyrighting, there is a government agency with a fee, a form, and an address.

And then there's the unmentionable. What if nobody cares? Then what? Isnt one of the attractive things about facebook is that 5 minutes of fame thing? a place where everyone can be seen, heard, known, famous. this fear around ideas being stolen, credit being taken, this "thing" that will be unfairly taken from you, this thing that makes us paranoid. What is that any but our asmita, aka "I-ness" aka ego. And the ego wants others to care. It wants to be recognized. So in a way, this copyright scare is just another attachment to our egos that we need to protect, that we need to fear we will lose.

And Did we forget its just effin Facebook? Just shows how a little idea can grow into a thought construct dense enough to make a form, and how the more thoughts around/about it, the more it grows into its own body, it's own entity. Have we created a monster? Or is it just a game. No global right answer. It's as important as we make it, because whatever we give our truth to, is our truth.