Facebook founder sued with claims on stealing the idea for the website

Facebook happens to be one of the fastest growing social networking networks on the internet today.

However, the founder of the company Mark Zuckerberg is facing a lawsuit which claims that he stole the idea from his former classmates.

A judge is expected to decide this week whether this lawsuit would go on. They lawsuit further claims that Zuckerberg stole source code, trade secrets, and intellectual property.

Harvard University students, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narenda are behind this lawsuit which claims that Zuckerberg was hired to develop their Web site idea (ConnectU) in 2003.

They further claim that he worked on the project for a while and later disappeared. He registered the domain name Facebook.com around the same time and use the concept and the code for his own website.