[bfioca]

It's interesting that my first thought after reading this was, "I wonder how Facebook will compensate for this?" I know university networks (verified by .edu email addresses) used to be the bread and butter of Facebook but maybe they're already becoming less important...

[aneesh]

The only thing facebook requires to join a university's network is an ability to receive emails sent to [e-mail]. Nothing is changing there.

[silencio]

Same here, until I read they were forwarding, which works for me. I never use my college email for anything important beyond a couple of somewhat annoying profs who set their filters to ignore everything but college email addresses and refused to send emails to private email addresses, which even the school itself uses to send information vs. the official .edu address (excuuuuse me if I don't login to the insanely backwards webmail more than once a month if at all, so I miss your email about something along with the entire rest of the class..)...as well as once on facebook, glassdoor, ms dreamspark and like one other time.

Wish more colleges at least gave an option, or did only forwarding as opposed to in-house solutions.