I am an IT student and I still prefer email above Facebook.
Facebook is more or less a pressured thing, you are supposed to post messages and photos on it, while email is more direct and you are certainly not pressured by anyone to check/send an email.
About the spam, I am also forwarding all my mails from my university emailaddress to GMail. The spam filter of GMail is just awesome and GMail is just easy to use.
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