I love the way Scott Karp oversimplifies and builds up a non-existant strawman over Facebook usage:

No, the issue is that so many “adults” fell for Facebook’s ploy to convince them that they should adopt a toy built for college kids as a platform for their professional networking objectives. The deep irony is that Facebook’s core student users -- for whom the application was and still is designed — are laughing at the grown-ups as they bumble around the playground, trying to hold meetings in the sandbox and forge new business relationships on the swings.

So are those student users going to drop off Facebook as soon as they get a job? Will they stop texting, too? Has it occurred to Scott Karp that most of us have more than one facet to our lives, and that - just perhaps - the one marked "business" doesn't have to be painted completely in shades of gray?

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