Another Harvard student claims 'Facebook' idea

With founders of the social networking sites, Facebook and ConnectU, tangled in a legal battle over the idea of the networking system, another Harvard student now claims to have developed it first.

By PTI | Sep 03, 2007, 05.13 AM IST

SILICON VALLEY: With founders of the social networking sites, Facebook and ConnectU, tangled in a legal battle over the idea of the networking system, another Harvard student now claims to have developed it first.

Mark E Zuckerberg, 24, is considered to the creator of the Silicon Valley-based Facebook, the second-largest social networking website in the US that is currently worth upward of $1 billion.

But three of his Harvard University classmates, the founders of ConnectU, have sued against Zuckerberg alleging he used their idea of networking site in creating Facebook.

Now, Aaron Greenspan, another classmate of Zuckerberg, claims to be the original one to have been behind the idea.

Greenspan said that he launched a website called the houseSYSTEM in August 2003, six months prior to the launch of Facebook.

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Another Harvard student claims 'Facebook' idea

With founders of the social networking sites, Facebook and ConnectU, tangled in a legal battle over the idea of the networking system, another Harvard student now claims to have developed it first.

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