BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhuanet) -- A U.S. judge Wednesday asked ConnettU's counsel to provide more evidence to back up its accusation that Facebook's founder stole its ideas to create the website, according to media reports Thursday.

The lawsuit first filed nearly three years ago alleges breach of contract and accuses Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, of stealing trade secrets.

"Dorm room chitchat does not make a contract, so I want to see it," said Douglas Woodlock, Massachusetts Federal.

ConnectU states that Zuckerberg was hired by Harvard Connections, the predecessor of ConnectU, to write code for it in late 2003 and then he left in early 2004 with the idea of Harvard Connection to set up Facebook.

Facebook, the social networking site that has become the hottest Internet company of the moment, was set up as a social site for Harvard in February 2004. It was later relocated to Palo Alto, California, to open to members of all ages.

"We continue to disagree with the allegations that Mark Zuckerberg stole any ideas or code to build Facebook," said Facebook spokeswoman Brandee Barker in a statement.

A separate California lawsuit filed in 2005 by Facebook alleges ConnectU hired programmers to hack into Facebook's site, stole thousands of e-mail addresses and then contacted Facebook members to win them over to ConnectU.

No trial date has been set in either case.

(Agencies)