This will never win :(

Well personally I found facebook to be pretty helpful and interesting while I was in college at least. They were helpful in a way because you can set up study* groups there as well as house parties and such. It's pretty simple and only takes up about 10 min of your day if that.

I totally agree even though I'm not using it to do that tasks...
It allows me to view profiles of other friends who I'd not be able or shy to connect offline, bringing it online and in hope it'd become mutually online/offline relationships.

Similar to study groups and parties, these networks are essential for bands. They're very powerful communication tools, especially when email marketing seems kind of unreliable.

I imagine, in 5 to 10 years we'll have the equivalent to Social Networking 2.0. Then we can all laugh about MySpace like it was a bad mullet.

Like people laughed at Friendster about 4 years ago, but of course I don't anticipate it, just to point them and laugh them down; if that was to happen I wouldn't be surprised at least.

I absolutely agree with the e-mail marketing thing which is seemed as less powerful in many ways.

The thing with study groups is the positive exception. I don't know about any other colleges, but mine had this thing called "Blackboard" which was basically a web portal that every student had an account on. Each course had it's own group, and different degree fields had their groups, and then their were the other groups and stuff for extracurricular things. But it was only in the campus intranet and not available out in the wild.

Yes, Kc, we have blackboard here in my college too. I haven't really used it, maybe all of my friends are more into facebook.