To read your messages in MySpace required you load a full page of Ads so you could then press "Next" and then see your Messages. Facebook in its first years di

To read your messages in MySpace required you load a full page of Ads so you could then press "Next" and then see your Messages. Facebook in its first years did everything in its power to lower the number of page loads necessary to navigate the entire interface. So you're right, it was less obnoxious by being faster. And I don't know if you realize how big a deal tagged photos and a nice UI for uploading and managing them was. MySpace had nothing like that. "Twitter Feeds" and news feed launched at the same time in summer 2006. Facebook filed for a patent in August. https://mashable.com/2010/02/25/facebook-news-feed-patent/#ciw3g8qQsEq7 https://mashable.com/2010/02/25/facebook-news-feed-patent/#c... Nobody used Twitter until the following year when it made a huge splash at SXSW and caused its first growth spike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Twitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Twitter