Comments on: Who founded Facebook? Aaron Greenspan says he came up with the idea first

By: Herb Gilliland

Herb Gilliland — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:40:00 +0000

I identify with Aaron, I had a similar problem occur with YouTube founder’s Chad Hurley and Steve Chen just sort of going off and not responding with any compensation. I don’t understand why people aren’t “in the mood” to stand up for the originals — the people who actually invent the brands or concepts — in fact, I face more ridicule than sympathy by making the true statement, “I invented YouTube”

By: Jim Ackley

Jim Ackley — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:37:21 +0000

Realistically, for something as generic as Facebook, which has been made many times by many people for many schools, etc., whoever makes something like that isn’t going to be the ONLY person in the world to think of it. There are approximately more than 6.7 billion people in the world, odds are one of them is thinking of the same thing you are at the same time. Many of them think of it but don’t or can’t put it into action. So sure they have “created” it before he did, but he’s the man who made it go big time. It’s their own fault for not releasing it for the public before he did.

By: leilah

leilah — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:47:31 +0000

Mr. Zuckerberg is such a self ish man..i min its ridiculous to copy someone’s work.

By: Alex Lavidge

Alex Lavidge — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:25:02 +0000

From what I remember, back in 2001 there was Club Nexus at Stanford. It was a savvy website that resembled facebook.com in a lot of ways. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_6/adamic/

The public needs to understand is that 1) social networking, and the kind of features facebook was built on, and all the ideas, have all been around for a while, before even facebook or ConnectU, and that 2) ideas are cheap (unless you have legal protection) and that creating value comes from execution, barriers to entry, putting the right teams together, and just a ton of other factors.

By: VentureBeat » Facebook idea man pitches “Facebook for companies”

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:37:11 +0000

[...] Aaron Greenspan, the man who says he came up with the idea for Facebook earlier than Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, grabbed attention with his claim by showing up on the New York Times this week. [...]

By: Mo

Mo — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:23:23 +0000

I signed onto facebook to get my application into their app platform and got to play with it quite a bit. I just don’t find anything patentable there. I just don’t see how those guys can sue facebook. I think their “Invite Friends to Join” feature is basically an electronic implementation of chained letters, that is why facebook spreads like a cancer.

By: Jon De Marion

Jon De Marion — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:21:34 +0000

What if Zuckerberg paid Greenspan for 2 reasons, 1st to weakening of the lawsuit filed by Tyler and 2nd to get more media attention. For that, he deserves even more credit, smart move, I wonder who is his PR advisor who also deserves a lot of credit.

By: Ideas vs. Execution: The Facebook Fiasco » techipedia | tamar weinberg’s blog of stuff

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:41:06 +0000

[...] getting a bit frustrated with the hundreds of posts that speak of individuals who claimed to invent [...]

By: Rex Agbulos

Rex Agbulos — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:03:09 +0000

Ha? What is a Facebook? What is a ConnectU? I know about Myspace. And who is Mark or Aaron? I’ve never heard of them. I know Tom.

By: Ruther44

Ruther44 — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:15:28 +0000

I agree. Ideas are 1% of a new business.
Zuckerberg got the idea from Greenspan. Greenspan got the idea from Abraham. Abrahams got the idea from Adrian Scott (ryze.com). The issue is did ConnectU pay Zuckerberg to write code which he took to facebook. That is what really matters. And that is what the case should be judged on. btw, who has finished Aaron’s 306 page ebook yet??

By: DMACK

DMACK — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:51:37 +0000

Social Networking is so boring once you hit 33.

By: Jitendra

Jitendra — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:40:55 +0000

I tend to agree with Bob Jones…Its all about the execution.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:35:27 +0000

All the beltway insiders know that Al Gore invented Facebook.

By: Bob Jones

Bob Jones — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:29:32 +0000

Completely agree… let’s assume that the idea was completely novel starting with this Aaron guy… who cares… execution was done by another and the fruit of that labor is what we see today… glad at least the ConnectU idiots’ case will be weaker now

By: rico

rico — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:16:23 +0000

Hmmm…Classmates.com anyone? This is comical…