Social networking pioneer who took on Facebook commits suicide at age 22
A 22-year-old social networking pioneer and Internet privacy advocate who dared to challenge Facebook and Google is dead. Ilya Zhitomirskiy died Saturday after San Francisco police were summoned for a reported suicide, police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said. Mr Zhitomirskiy was one of the founders Diaspora*, a new social networking service meant to give users more control of their information
