More Legal Trouble for Facebook?

Facebook just recently settled a lawsuit by the founders of ConnectU who claimed that Mark Zuckerberg had stolen their code and their idea to create Facebook. Within weeks, the beginning of a new story is becoming more public. Aaron Greenspan, who is releasing a book on the topic, claims that he coined the term Facebook and was using it for the houseSYSTEM, a social network which he founded at Harvard.

Ultimately, there were numerous social networks that were being created on the Harvard campus around the same time Zuckerberg launched Facebook.

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