Okay, just as we know, most of you might have read the business insider column on how facebook was founded, what are your views?
Now that we are not going to debate whats right and whats wrong. Atleast I will acknowledge the fact that the way Facebook is now integrated into our lives and the way Zuck has developed “the Facebook thing” in the past 6 years is nothing short of marvelous. A recent Mashable post values facebook at $11.5 billion. Considering fb is still a private entity with just being launched in 2004, the valuation figure is enormous. Also, the article says the Harward Connection folks received $65 million in the lawsuit settlement with Mark. Also, the interesting fact is that they sued him in Sept2004 and they were not able to reach an agreement with an out of court settlement until Feb2008. What took it so long? Was Zuck thinking that he hasn’t ditched them? And that everything happened for a reason? No matter whose idea it was, no matter who did, facebook is a lovely thing that I can’t just ignore. All these articles may bring a blot on the image of Mark, but they cannot destroy facebook as it now. 400 million people login to facebook to just stay connected and for fun. Also, the chat and email transcripts as shown in the article are convincing that Zuck did the crime. But the question here is that ‘Can they be believed?’
Nowhere in the article does it show where they have acquired the IM transcripts, nor they acknowledge they really happened. A weird word duo ‘we believe’ just accompanies every accusation and I must agree that the story is very gripping.
To just wrap it up, I neither have time nor energy to stop by and debate the right and wrong, I can just continue to use fb and a big sigh of relief that the lawsuit was actually dropped back in 2008 so that I can still continue playing my mafia and farmville.. and Ofcourse, my Happy Aquarium 
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