Facebook is for kids... at least according to CNBC

Michael Gartenberg | July 18, 2007, 09:18 AM

I was watching CNBC last evening (not sure of the show, it was anchored by a blonde woman who is clearly the anti-jim cramer) and they did a segment on LinkedIn as the alternative to Facebook for adults... Really? What I do see is the opposite, many adults who were on LinkedIn migrating their networks over to Facebook.

(it's interesting, after the watching the report I spent some time looking over my two networks on both services. The majority of my LinkedIn network is folks I have typically worked with in the past of old friends who tracked me down somehow. They're typically not the folks I interract with regularly although it's nice to know where they are and what they're doing. My Facebook network for the most part is much more current. Folks I'm working with, speaking with on a current and regular basis. If you're seeing something similar, please let me know)

What's even more interesting is the way the Facebook economy is springing up and the apps being developed for it that appear with greater frequency (Jeremy Toeman noted this and created a site called AppRate that lets folks rate the most popular Facebook apps)

I'm not suggesting that there's anything wrong with LinkedIn, but to categorize Facebook as just for kids is totally not seeing what's actually happening on the site.