As Jeremy pointed out, Friendster — a “community-driven site” — has fired one of its employees for (gasp!) being part of the blogging community.
Like Jeremy and many others, I took this as an opportunity to cancel my friendster account, and put as my reason for cancelling “you fire people for blogging.” Maybe they’ll get the message after a few dozen people do the same.
I don’t want to name names, but there’s people I know, who are probably extremely happy not to have taken job offers that Friendster made to them.
Posted by: dballing | August 30, 2004
Screw Friendster
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Fired for Blogging
No, not me. (But would it surprise you?) It seems that Friendster, who had no policy at all on employee blogging, has fired Joyce Park. You may remember her from such debates as Java vs. PHP. Or maybe her book. Or maybe mod_pubsub (blog). Take a minut…
By: Jeremy Zawodny's blog on August 31, 2004
at 12:03 am
Fuck ‘em. I’m out. Not to kiss your ass, and not to lemming behind your opinion.
A web-service provider fires an employee for utilizing a web service? That truly is absurd.
By: Gary on August 31, 2004
at 12:51 am
Fired for blogging
Picked the following up on Jeremy Zawodny’s Blog that the evil people at Friendster who have no policies in place regarding to blogging, has fired one of their employees Joyce Park. Since when is it company policy to dictate what…
By: Jacques Marneweck's Blog on August 31, 2004
at 5:48 am
Eigentor
Ein wahre Welle an blogosphärischem Medienecho hat der Blogeintrag “Shitcanned” von “Troutgirl” ausgelöst. Im wahren Leben[tm] ist “Troutgirl” Joyce Park, PHP Expertin aus Leid
By: /* basquiat's lovely winter riot */ on August 31, 2004
at 12:08 pm
Eh, I haven’t used Friendster in months since I joined MySpace. I cancelled my account with the “Because you fire employees who blog” as the reason. Wonder how many of THOSE they’ve seen so far…
By: Tera on September 1, 2004
at 9:09 pm
We’re designers, not programmers, but we stand behind Joyce Park. Read our discussion on the matter here:
http://www.cranbrookdesign.com/comments.php?id=510_0_1_0_C
By: Maya Drozdz on September 3, 2004
at 12:26 pm