I find it very upsetting that Friendster has fired an employee for blogging.
In protest I have canceled my Friendster account.
Friendster is a freakin' communication-collaboration-networking tool. The idea that they're firing one of their employees for blogging (i.e. communicating) is just stupid.
I mean, I could see my employer getting upset if I released lots of specific details about the game I'm working on (which our publisher is gearing up to spend crazy amounts of money to promote on a very specific time scale) but our product isn't in a giant public beta. It's not like Friendster is some kind of secret.
This whole thing would border on the comical if someone hadn't just lost their job over it.
Posted by matt at August 30, 2004 11:51 PMOK, now, how about going to http://websurfboard.blogspot.com, and signing up for one of the alternatives to friendster that I list. If you know of one, you can signup for it too. Then leave a comment, and tell me which service you signed up for!! If you want to, send me an invite, and we can make a big network of friendster protesters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, you can take my blog post, and spread it around email it to people you know who have friendster accounts, send it to other bloggers to post on there blogs, and then the network would be even bigger!!
Posted by: Noelle at August 31, 2004 11:18 AMHonestly friendster sucks and I'm glad to hear how many problems they been having. Ultimately someone will figure out how to do social networking the right way but it's going to take a while.
Posted by: Friendster Sucks at August 31, 2004 03:31 PMWe're designers, not programmers, but we stand behind Joyce Park. Read our discussion on the subject:
http://www.cranbrookdesign.com/comments.php?id=510_0_1_0_C
Posted by: Maya Drozdz at September 3, 2004 09:19 AM