[rixed]

Is my memory corrupted, or didn't Facebook also pretend to be reserved for the "elite" in its infancy? I remember several newspaper articles describing Facebook as the "secret" website where "important" people stays in touch with each others, with some celebrity names listed as reputed users.

[calvano915]

I joined pretty early when it was still invite only and mostly university population. Perhaps it was described that way because of being invite only but the membership has always been normal, non-elite people (like me).

[oneweekwonder]

> mostly "Ivy League" university population.

From wikipedia:

> The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students; however, later they expanded it to higher education institutions in the Boston area, the Ivy League schools, and Stanford University.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

[closeparen]

It started out requiring an @harvard.edu address, then expanded to other elite .edu addresses, before opening membership to the public.