Facebook's educational stand

When someone thinks of facebook, they think of socialization, friends communicating and sharing their information. Usually, it is used for purely fun, but what I have noticed going through high school, is that it is immensely useful for study sessions, and exchanging information. Here is the scenario, it is the day before a final, and everyone is scrambling to finish their study guide so that they do not completely fail. As they go through, there will be some questions that they can not find the answer to. They could text all the smart people to see if they know, or email, but majority of the time they will receive the annoying one word answer "idk", and be screwed for that part of the final. Instead what students are doing is just asking the question in there status and have whoever knows the answer, answer it. On facebook, it is easy to see who is actually available for talking by simply going to the "chat" tab. With the quick answer and response, it will be much easier to find the information needed. But also on facebook, you can send messages. So you can send entire study guide files to someone in seconds, all on the same website. On facebook, you can even make a page of your specific class and put all of your questions there. For example, the Digital Media class, we all joined a facebook group and discussed our questions for the midterm. Facebook is mostly used for socializing, but it is a useful study tool because of the simplicity of it's tools and how everything is right in front of the user. Caroline Lego Menoz talks about how facebook is connected to education, and includes it in Web 2.0.