No One Will Confuse Lamebook with Facebook Ever Again

Monday marked the whimpering death of the heavy-handed lawsuit of Facebook against local comedy blog Lamebook. The two companies have settled out of court with the stipulation that Lamebook add a disclaimer that there is no affiliation between the two. The site is just one of a handful targeted by Facebook in the past year including the educational Teachbook and the pornographic Facebook of Sex and Shagbook. They've even tried to trademark words like "face" and "book" (both of which were terribly unpopular before the company), and Apple has been of a like mind with the attempted trademark of the prefix "i."

This whole situation brings to mind one of the newer kids on the compiling-the-absurd scene, Literally Unbeleivable, a blog with a very similar build that focuses on the same sorts of people who make up the pith of the content on Lamebook, and whose tagline of "Stories from the Onion as interpreted by Facebook," seems to differ from Lamebook's "The funniest and lamest of Facebook," only in tone. Yet this site seems in no danger of law pursuit. So is the real problem Facebook had with watering down the brand, making money off the implied relationship, or the unflattering stance the site takes? Doesn't matter now, Facebook has retreated back to its mansion-headquarters to find new ways to technically undermine people's privacy and incorporate more fake services for people to buy.