Welcome to the next friendster...poor business decisions that take a market leader to irrelevance.

 

I think the people who think they are entitled to a big piece of the pie because they'd in some way contributed to the initial idea, are vastly over valuing their contribution.

Many great ideas come and go by the waste side. It takes nothing but a few minutes of free time to cultivate one. It takes a heck of a lot more, including risks, to put the idea in motion and grow it. It's kind of like someone walk up to a farmer to demand half his harvest because he contributed in obtaining the seed.

Of course, I don't know the whole story behind Facebook so I am not passing judgement on the specific people filing the suit. I am just commenting from a general standpoint.

 

You can sign up even if you don't go to school at all, you just get a "network" like MySpace. And all the new apps are cool for 3 days and then everyone takes them down. They should just take the money and let whoever take control of it, they've lost a lot of their appeal now anyway...