the edu requirement is part of what made facebook so great- you knew it would be harder for internet creeps to get onto it. It's part of what made facebook more "safe".
MySpace is in the newspaper weekly for a reason. Anyone can join anywhere. Almost every article about it in the paper has something to do with child predators, sexual harrassment, or someone even killing themself. Don't let Facebook sellout and degenerate to this type of thing.