Diaspora social network's 22-year-old founder has died

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Source: BBC News

Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the co-founder of Facebook rival Diaspora, has died.

The 22-year-old was one of four New York-based students who launched Diaspora as a "privacy-aware, user-controlled" social network.

It was set up in response to criticism that Facebook was not handling the privacy of its users well.

The cause of Mr Zhitomirskiy's death is yet to be determined. The San Francisco coroner's office said it will have details in several weeks time.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15736807

[blueknight]

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on one of the news web sites, cnn, or msnbc or another, i cant remember which one, it was a suicide. RIP young man.