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.
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.
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...
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