• Ilya Zhitomirskiy, founder of Facebook rival Diaspora, dies, is said to have committed suicide.
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[QUOTE]NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Ilya Zhitomirskiy, one of four co-founders of social network Diaspora, died over the weekend in San Francisco at age 22. Zhitomirskiy committed suicide, a source close to the company told CNNMoney on Sunday. A San Francisco Police Department officer confirmed on Monday that a police report about Zhitomirskiy's death says officers responded to the 700 block of Treat Avenue around 8:10 p.m. on Saturday. The department had received phone calls about a possible suicide. The case was then referred to the medical examiner's office, said SFPD Officer Alvie Esparza. "In this case it appears to be a suicide," Esparza added. "However, the medical examiner's office will make the final decision" after conducting testing. A representative from the San Francisco Coroner's Office said that determining the cause of death is a process that "takes weeks and weeks." Diaspora -- positioned as an open-source, decentralized alternative to Facebook -- came into public view last year. Zhitomirskiy and three other New York University students announced the project on April 24, 2010, seeking donations through microfunding site Kickstarter. [B]The founders surpassed their $10,000 fundraising goal in 12 days, and they raised a total of $200,000 from 6,500 donors in 39 days -- including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.[/B] The Diaspora announcement was well-timed, as it launched while Facebook was dealing with bad press about its confusing privacy controls. Diaspora also raised money from high-profile venture capitalists including Fred Wilson. Diaspora posted its source code in September 2010 and launched a commercial version of its network a few weeks later. But after that, the buzz began to fade. A Diaspora blog post last month pleaded for more donations, but on October 19 the cofounders said "PayPal mysteriously and arbitrarily decided to freeze everyone's donations." PayPal later said it had released the funds. Over the weekend, dozens of people commented on the news of Zhitomirskiy's death -- first reported by TechCrunch -- via a forum on startup incubator Y Combinator's site. "Ilya was an incredible person," wrote one user. "His heart was truly driven by bringing about positive change in this world. Diaspora was only the beginning." [/QUOTE] [url]http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/14/technology/diaspora_cofounder_died/[/url] No clear motive as of this posting. Sad, he might have had a future in a well paying job at some company, he was getting allot of attention.
I have never even heard of Diaspora. But it sucks when a guy who was doing so much good is gone. I hope the website is successful. RIP.
Facebook's getting rid of competitors....
Facebook Secret Assassination Squad :v:
*A Russian Voice* He is.. Sleeping with deh fishes my friends.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld-np27QiwI[/media] It seems Facebook got revenge.
[IMG]http://8.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Ilya-Zhitomirskiy-640.jpg[/IMG] Man, too young...
Holy shit I look like him. RIP lookalike.
Why do all the good die young?!
22 man, what the fuck? Now I'm curious just what drove him to do it. Nobody should consider killing themselves, especially at an age like that.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;33284707]22 man, what the fuck? Now I'm curious just what drove him to do it. Nobody should consider killing themselves, especially at an age like that.[/QUOTE] well I've considered killing myself when I was 6 years younger than he was. It's a crazy world man
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;33284707]22 man, what the fuck? Now I'm curious just what drove him to do it. Nobody should consider killing themselves, especially at an age like that.[/QUOTE] Actually males around that age are far more likely to commit suicide than any other age group.
[QUOTE=lapsus_;33284387]Holy shit I look like him. RIP lookalike.[/QUOTE] pics
Which guy was he in the Social Network movie?
[QUOTE=gra;33281180]Facebook's getting rid of competitors....[/QUOTE] [quote]The founders surpassed their $10,000 fundraising goal in 12 days, and they raised a total of $200,000 from 6,500 donors in 39 days -- [b]including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.[/b][/quote] At least read the thread before you shit post. On topic, I hope Diaspora takes off in some way, it'd be sort of a legacy to him.
[QUOTE=MuTAnT;33285809]Actually males around that age are far more likely to commit suicide than any other age group.[/QUOTE] That's not correct. While it is a leading [I]cause[/I] of death (around 3rd) of young males, suicide actually occurs more as they grow older. It's not so significant as a cause of death when people are older because they start dropping like flies from everything else. [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36759995/FP/suicideratesAUS.JPG[/img]
[QUOTE=Contag;33302275]That's not correct. While it is a leading [I]cause[/I] of death (around 3rd) of young males, suicide actually occurs more as they grow older. It's not so significant as a cause of death when people are older because they start dropping like flies from everything else. *graph*[/QUOTE] Well shit, thanks for that I stand corrected.
[QUOTE=Contag;33302275]That's not correct. While it is a leading [I]cause[/I] of death (around 3rd) of young males, suicide actually occurs more as they grow older. It's not so significant as a cause of death when people are older because they start dropping like flies from everything else. insert graph[/QUOTE] Why's the graph for women so much lower?
:smith: What a shame to see what could have been such a successful idea cause the death of its creator.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;33362200]Why's the graph for women so much lower?[/QUOTE] They don't have the balls do it.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;33362200]Why's the graph for women so much lower?[/QUOTE] maybe because in males there are more autoerotic asphyxiations gone wrong that the family tries to cover up as a suicide because it's less embarrassing but I mean I'm just spitballing here 'Looking back, kid-psych experts, school counselors now say that most of the last peak in teen suicide was kids trying to choke while they beat off. Their folks would find them, a towel twisted around their kid's neck, the towel tied to the rod in their bedroom closet, the kid dead. Dead sperm every¬where. Of course the folks cleaned up. They put some pants on their kid. They made it look ... better. Intentional at least. The regular kind of sad teen suicide.' that's a quote from Chuck Palahniuk's short story 'Guts' and he tends to research his things quite thoroughly
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;33362200]Why's the graph for women so much lower?[/QUOTE] I think women bottle it up more?
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;33362200]Why's the graph for women so much lower?[/QUOTE] Men needs to work for a living.
[QUOTE=Atlascore;33362269]That's for Australia, how about use a graph based on international suicide rates?[/QUOTE] Yeah, I'm Australian, so it's relevant for me. How about look up your own graphs? [editline]25th November 2011[/editline] FYI, cultures globally vary dramatically, and, thus, so would the rates of suicide. I don't know how an international one that collates data for all countries would really be helpful in this regard. Also, you can likely extrapolate the data from the Australian one for the US; they're going to be pretty similar because the cultures are overlap significantly. Which you would know if you Googled it yourself.
[QUOTE=Sexy Eskimo;33365119]Men needs to work for a living.[/QUOTE] Men get a harder hit from a lack of accomplishments. Which why the highest rate is just prior to the midlife crisis. I'd say that male suicides also strongly differ between social groups. Whereas female suicides remain uniform over those as well. Essentially societies with high differences in wealth redistribution will create more space for male suicides. There's also a difference in coping with pressure. Men cope better with short term extreme issues, whereas women tend to cope far better with long term issues. To put two examples. A man would cope a lot better with a direct immediate attack, but a man would suffer emotionally under a famine a lot more than a woman.
women have better social networks, whereas men tend to bottle it up and get drunk and shoot themselves
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