Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson
Thomas Anderson is the American co-founder of the social networking website Myspace, which he founded in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe. He was later president of Myspace and a strategic adviser for the company until he left in 2009. As of October 2014, Anderson is popularly known as "Myspace Tom." This is because until 2010, he would automatically be assigned as the first "friend" of new Myspace users upon the creation of their profiles...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth8 November 1970
CityLos Angeles, CA
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studies the Word of God hours and hours a day and has for 30 years.
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I think we have replaced MTV. MySpace is more convenient. You can search for things, while MTV is just delivering things to you. On MySpace you can pick your own channel and go where you want.
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When I'm on the net, someone always wants to chat with me. But outside of MySpace, it's a completely different world. I don't get recognized that much on the street.
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In person I don't have that many friends. I'm a pretty tight-knit guy with the people that I know. Offline, I have no more than four or five friends.
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What's culturally significant about MySpace is that it has become so pervasive that people of all ages are now using it. Even people who didn't grow up with it are getting used to it. People just get sucked in.
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