Is it legal in the U.S. for someone to cut a private facebook message and paste it to start a thread on...?

[Bo]

...a facebook group to make the person who wrote the message look bad? It happened to me and the post included my name. The group has 9000 members. Can I sue for that? LAWYERS PLEASE.

[Nbmv]

just report it on facebook. They will remove it

[Contact40]

Yes, it is legal. If you don't want the world to see it, don't type it out. Words on the internet are like bullets, once you write them, they are out there.

[Artemis Agrotera]

Of course not.

There is no such thing as a "private facebook message." The moment you posted it, it became fair game . . . and it is the absolute right of the person who received the message to do anything they want with the message - as long as they give you credit for writing it.

(A person cannot take something you wrote and then pretend they wrote it. This is plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property.)

But just because you want a message to stay private doesn't mean it has to stay private.

[Inda Cloud]

Your first mistake is thinking Facebook is actually private. You can try to see if facebook will remove it, but there is no guarantee they will.

[hotwheels122287]

YOU posted it..... so its your own fault.

dont want something seen, dont post it. especially if you wrote the message to someone else. its their message just as much as it is yours. equal "property rights" lets call it. just ignore the stupid person, they have nothing better to do with their life than make you miserable. so, dont give them the satisfaction ignore them, but no, you cant sue for that