When the bosses are perhaps as narrow-minded as Friendster’s CEO Scott Sassa, it sure can. Joyce Park, a Web developer living in Sunnyvale, Calif., said her managers told her Monday that she stepped over the line with her Blog, Troutgirl. She was hired early this year in the team which converted the Social Networking platform from Java J2EE platform to PHP due to the kind of traffic the site was generating.

In fact, the Blog only had 3 posts regarding the Blogger’s employer. They related comments regarding the performance of the old Java based platform and general views on Friendster. Interestingly the companies had no policies against such things, nor were the employees given any directions. The decision of the management was sudden and had no comments to make to the media in general.

Not for the first time such high profile Blogging related firing incident has occurred. Sometime back, Microsoft fired contractor Michael Hanscom last year after he had taken pictures of Apple G5 computers being unloaded onto the software company’s campus and posted them to his Web log. That made big news and people still talks about it.

So, while big shot companies like Macromedia and Microsoft (!!) are now opening Blogs for their employees on the official sites, will their be censorship on what you can and cannot post when you are working in a corporation? I have personally avoided posting anything on my company when I was in the company. Though I have had laughs on the crappy ethics of my old jobs after I had left them for good…

But apparently, bosses are not happy about what you opine on your personal Blogs about the companies. And it is a big disappointment.