Message Boards Dead?

Interesting idea posed by a college administrator who has not been a fan of the message board phenomenon -- is Facebook killing them?

Follow his logic: message board membership and numbers are artificially inflated by the casual account (low posts counts, got either his anger out or bored with the board); the real chatting is happening among friends on Facebook.

May be something to this as I certainly see an uptick in conversation among groups on wider subjects, including sports, but I'm not sure you can assume the anonymous nature of most message board situations will be trumped by the very open Facebook world.

Curious of others thoughts. Sounds a lot like the similar points that blogs are dead.