Facebook To Employees: Start ‘Droidfooding’

Facebook continues to ramp up its support for the Android platform, putting its own take on dogfooding -- defined on Wikipedia as “a slang term used to reference a scenario in which a company (usually, a software company) uses its own product to demonstrate the quality and capabilities of the product" -- with “Droidfooding” posters appearing throughout its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

Facebook continues to ramp up its support for the Android platform, putting its own take on dogfooding — defined on Wikipedia as “a slang term used to reference a scenario in which a company (usually, a software company) uses its own product to demonstrate the quality and capabilities of the product” — with “Droidfooding” posters appearing throughout its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

Josh Constine of TechCrunch was the first to report on Droidfooding, adding that in addition to the posters urging employees of the social network to “switch today” from iPhones to Android devices, Facebook also provides its staffers with a bug-reporting tool called “Rage Shake.”

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