Inside Facebook looks at Which Facebook Applications Really Are the Most Engaging?. What a waste of an interesting platform. Turning other people into zombies may be fun (or not) but I think facebook could be so much more.
Given that facebook knows who your friends are and should know how you know them (that is work vs family vs college friends), it should be one of the best sites for providing access control. The classic example that most recent college students should want, is only show my photos to my college friends, not my work colleagues or family.
It's easy to form groups, but you don't get notifications from them. The discussion board doesn't have search and there are no recent group tools like wikis. Kids use its messaging systems to replace email. Add some calendaring stuff and some and replace groupware. Add location stuff and beef up events to take on upcoming.com and going.com and evite. If there's a group for a 5th grade class, it should be easy to make a group of the parents of that class, then it should be easy to schedule events inviting all members of a group or by specifying all the people you know via some organization. It should be easy to specify repeating events and coordinate who brings what or car pools with more than just posts on a wall.
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