re: Why did Facebook become more popular than MySpace?

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Exclusivity by needing a .edu email to register.

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This, at first.

Now I think the uniformity of it helps. If I'm clicking through I don't have to see someone's terrible background and a shitty song doesn't start playing.

Except now FB will auto-play videos in the news feed, but you can disable that, same as you could disable the songs on MySpace, which I just assume everyone did.

Yup. When I first registered for Facebook you either had to have a school email or if you were in HS and didn't have one you had to be invited by somebody at your HS and then confirmed by a couple other people at your HS. Also college and HS Facebook were seperate, you couldn't add each other.

That was the appeal. No adults.