It's also missing a number of essential (at least for college students) facebook features, like events and richer profiles.
I'm playing with it for now, but I don't think I can manage two social networks and since nearly all of my friends are on Facebook it's not hard to choose one. Maybe some day that will change, but network effects augur otherwise.
Edit: I should note that hangouts are seriously cool, and they might be reason enough for people to start using it.