Can you be sued for pictures of conversations posted on Facebook?

[eric h]

I know a kid that was texting me that he was having "feelings" for two girls that were bench pressing in our school weight room. This was two months ago. Now today, he was threatening me/making fun of me, and I said "hey i have a screenshot of the conversation, keep this up and I'm going to post them on facebook so these girls can see." Then two hours later, he starts telling me how I can get sued for these pictures. Is this true, or is he just bluffing? (Btw this is in Canada)

[john]

Take a large amount of fire sauce and ghost pepper juice and apply it to the inflicted area, everybody knows balls like spicy food, if this doesn't work, just try catching them and gorilla gluing them to your chin, they'll miss their old home and eventually fix themselves. once back they shouldn't leave again.

[pointyredthings]

How can anyone have a screen shot of a conversation? Is it a video with sound? If not, then there can be no conversation. It's a photo.

[bw022]

No.

The text of the conversations was not copyrighted, nor did you sign any contact which stated that you couldn't publish it. Even if you did... he'd still have to show damages. In some alternate universe he might be able to claim that your "keep this up and I'm going to post them on Facebook..." is extortion. However, that would be a criminal act and the police/courts wouldn't waste a second on it -- you didn't ask for money, the act itself would be perfectly legal, he posted this stuff on the internet, etc.

Complete bluff.