So, this morning my wife asks me kind of sheepishly if I took the Facebook IQ test.  I told her “no,” and asked her why she wanted to know.  Turns out that her Facebook profile was displaying an ad for the IQ test that claims that (a) I took it, and (b) my score was 116, which was near the bottom of her friends list.

Maybe I’m just getting old, because I’m not going to sue anyone pro se.  Too bad, because I smell easy nuisance settlements.  I’d sue the developer of the app, and Facebook itself.  The latter would likely settle with me for some small (a couple grand) sum of money after I hit them with a ton of discovery requests asking for:

• Information about their relationship with the developer of the app
• How many people have seen the claim that my IQ is 116, and who those people are
• What revenue they’ve made from displaying the ads
• Something really burdensome from their IT logs that they wouldn’t want to produce

I’d also force the developer to admit that I never took the IQ test, and could thus move for summary judgment on the liability claims.  Honestly, I don’t know what a jury would give me for having a false IQ score displayed to the world, but I bet the developer would be scared enough to also throw me a couple thousand dollars.

Perhaps they’d even throw their hands in the air, take the app offline, and then I could become an Internet pariah who would likely become the butt of a meme about my IQ.   I’d lack the resources to sue those who create and transmit the meme, so I’d probably end up spending my $5 to $7k settlement on booze to drown my sorrows. 

No thanks.

Unless of course someone with a credenza full of cash wants to make me the lead plaintiff in a class action over this.  For $100k, you can meme me all you want.