I'm not terribly fond of sites like Facebook or Myspace as they just all seem to be clones of each other and are often devoted to complete drivel. I'm not saying this would happen with a 68K site though, but I have seen other good forums and websites being wrecked by getting turned into Myspace clones.

The exception is the RetroMacCast site which seems to be working well at the moment with most topics, photos and videos being relevent. The fact that the site is based around the central core of the podcast helps alot as well and provides good topical fuel for listeners to discuss.

Personally I like the 68KMLA forums as they are since they're neat, easy to navigate and search, the conversation is generally sensible and on-topic etc. The 68KMLA forum also loads on older browsers and machines but you can almost guarantee that a bloated social networking site would not load on your favorite Quadra with Netscape 4. The only thing I would change about the current forum is the look, it would be great if we had that System 7 look of the old forum back...

So yes, I would say that the current forum fits it's purpose well and I reckon that a social-networking style thing would pretty much ruin things.