Mark Zuckerberg’s Nemisis

Looks like founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has another hater to add to the list, and this time it is more then one of his million members complaining about the new changes to the site. Aaron Greenspan, an ex Harvard classmate of Zuckerberg’s has written an open letter mocking Zuckerberg and calling him out for stealing features from a site Greenspan had made pre-facebook.

In addition, Greenspan has decided to relaunch his project from 3 years ago in the form of CommonRoom.com not only as a Facebook killer, but a be all end all to the regular internet. I think Pete Cashmore over at Mashable described it best in one word, pretentious.

CommonRoom currently displays two versions of a very overdone trailer probably put together by a college hollywood wannabe with more time on his hands then talent. Even the sign up list is called “The Waiting List” and the thank you use to state (changed this morning) “We’ll let you know if we expand the network and need you.” Guess what Greenspan, you do need them. Even the logo is a graphic of steeples commonly found on Harvard buildings.

I hate to be so harsh on Greenspan because I’m definitely not a fan of Zuckerberg’s attitude towards his site and his users, but there are classier and more humble ways of going about this.

I’ll be interested to see if CommonRoom displays any type of growth (currently 995 members). My initial guess is nothing that will be significant to write about again.

[tags]Facebook, CommonRoom, Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Networking, Social Network[/tags]