Like so much MTV programming, the channel’s partnership with MySpace to “rap” with young people about the 2008 election is now irrelevant.

That’s because Facebook, the only social networking site people use, has collaborated with ABC to do the same thing. ABC has just forced its reporters to join Facebook, and Facebook has integrated ABC news coverage on its site.

ABC and Facebook will sponsor a Republican and Democratic debate three days before the New Hampshire primary.

And yet somehow, Facebook status updates continue to reference binge drinking, not the value of a free democracy.