If you have seen the movie,"The Social Network," then you know about the long and dramatic feud between Facebook creator Mark Zuckerburg and a set of twins named Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss over who's idea Facebook really was.
Apparently, this years-long battle is still going on, and it may take the Supreme Court to finally settle it. They're rediculously also challenging a San Franciso federal appeals court ruling that gave them a nice $65 million cash-and-stock settlement they reached with Facebook in 2008 [1].
I'm going to be blunt. I don't care who's idea it was to create a social network website like Facebook first, I care about who made it. In other words, Winklevoss twins? Shove off of Zuckerburg, please. He made it before you two did, and that's a fact you have to accept.
I'm on Facebook right now as I write this. I gotta tell you, I love this website. I'm on it everyday, either on my computer, on my phone, or on my iPod. It's a part of my life and for the most part, part of my 420 or so friend's on the website's lives. I communicate with people on Facebook as much or more as I do with people on my phone, and that's a lot of communication! It's a part of my life, a part of people around the world's lives-- It has a 500+ million strong social network, where the users spend over 700 billion minutes per month [2]! Like I said, I don't care who's idea it was who made it, all I want to do is thank Mr. Zuckerburg FOR making it.
-Luke
[1] Source: Fox News Article
[2] Source: Facebook Statistics Page
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