When you get assisted by a leader in the industry for an idea that is totally off track their line of work, chances are that you have a pretty good idea worth spending money on. Diaspora, the more private social network to be has received a similar assistance from Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook founder and CEO admitted that he had donated an unspecified amount of cash to this project from 4 NYU students stating that he sees his own self in them, honestly speaking that is scary, I will tell you why.
While it wont obviously hurt Facebook or even Mark to donate a few thousand dollars to such a startup, the idea they are donating for is simply against their own interest. I mean the kids want to have a social network which gives back privacy to the users, completely and not sharing it with anyone for any purpose.
