# Friendster cans coder for blogging

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2004-09-01T03:37:33Z


Cory @ Boing BoingFriendster cans coder for blogging

Joyce Park is a coder who worked at Friendster, leading the charge to re-engineer the poky, Java-based back-end with fast PHP. She blogged about it, got slashdotted, got written up in the press -- and got fired. Even though there was nothing confidential in her blog posts, the new CEO shitcanned her. [I]t's especially ironic because Friendster, of course, is a company that is all about getting people to reveal information about themselves... Link, Link to Jeremy Zawodny's instructions for resigning from Friendster

(Thanks, Jeffreyp!)I can't find any more information on this story, but this sounds like pretty crappy behavior on Friendster's side. I haven't used Friendster in months. Maybe it's time to drop out.





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