Wednesday, July 25, 2007

the end (of facebook) is near?

the ongoing legal saga between ubergeek mark zuckerberg and three other nerds could potentially lead to the shutdown of the lifeblood known as facebook.

zuckerberg is accused of being an overall jerkface:
The owners of a rival social networking Web site are trying to shut down Facebook.com, charging in a federal lawsuit that Facebook's founder stole their ideas while they were students at Harvard.
The three founders of ConnectU say Mark Zuckerberg agreed to finish computer code for their site, but repeatedly stalled and eventually created Facebook using their ideas.
The lawsuit's allegations against Zuckerberg include fraud, copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets. It asks the court to shut down Facebook and give control of the company and its assets to ConnectU's founders.

if it's true, then down w/ "switching to guns" zuckerberg. however, do these three really want to be the dudes that destroyed a multitude of social lives? that tainted the veil of web 2.0's messiah? that ended a rich, white, well educated era?
that's even too much responsibility for me.

1 Comments:

Blogger J-Ho said...

Maybe it's for the best. With all the applications and shit people are churning out, it won't be long before Facebook becomes self-aware. I doubt it'll go all Terminator on us, but it might change our profiles in embarrassing ways.

Also, I can't believe someone used the line "reads like classic [Wes] Anderson" in a news story. The analogy isn't bad, but come on! Classic? Already?

7/25/2007 2:47 PM  

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