Facebook Suggestion

This morning when I awoke and - yup - checked my facebook, the homepage had an interested NEW comment again. Asking for feedback before they make big changes...
This is what I had to say...

When I got on facebook, I liked it because it was UBC-specific! (my university). It served as a mechanism for community building and student networking on our campus.
I very soon went to a student leadership conference on the other side of the continent, and discovered that facebook -- universally popular -- was also a great tool for networking and keeping in touch between schools.
Later however, I was opposed to the idea of high school, work and regional networks at first because it seemed to take away from the exclusively student nature of the site. Admittedly, these changes never affected me or my facebook experience.
However, in opening up facebook to anybody, I feel the concern lies in it becoming far too accessible to just anybody to use, and therefore a) sacrifices the integrity of its design (i.e. Student-focussed); and b) provides a venue for too many of the wrong sort of users to gain access to information (i.e. "creeps").
In the long run, I believe that those of us who were in our undergrad during the populising of facebook may not feel much affect, as we will continue to USE facebook as we always have, and enjoy... BUT! the up-and-coming university students, will have been pre-conditioned and facebook-savvy ahead of time, may not appreciate its value as a university community networking agent when they arrive on campus, and ultimately the sense of belonging -- or to quote Schlossberg’s Student Development Theory, "Mattering" -- in a special and specific collective of similar people (i.e. university students) will be lost. As a result, campus user bases will decrease on account of people like myself not seeing facebook any differently than myspace, etc (which new university students seeking anonymity and autonomy on campus would heed away from) and in fact, as high-schoolers with friends on those networks reach university, this phenomenon has already begun being noticed.
In the end, what we may find are "students for students" types -- perhaps not unlike a younger Mark Zuckerberg -- writing their own software to create a new site which WILL be dedicated to students exclusively. And who knows - they may figure out how to steal all the data they want from their facebook accounts, and get others on board in doing the same.
I sincerely hope none of these concerns come to pass.
In the meantime, please continue to solicit feedback as you have been, and I challenge you to take baby steps in all the changes you make (I think it will go over a lot better).

Cheers and good-luck,
Trevor Barry
Undergraduate in Science,
University of British Columbia | Vancouver.