Do Facebook groups accomplish anything?

[Alex L]

The petitions almost never have any effect whatsoever. If they have any effect on facebook's administrators the effect has to have been fairly minimal, as they tend to just do what they feel like.

As for accomplishing anything, groups used to be a lot more prominent in the early days of facebook, especially when groups were limited just to your campus network. Then the groups listed on a person's profile actually told a bit about that person.