Tom Anderson
- For other people with the same name, see Tom Anderson.
Thomas Everett Anderson (born October 13, 1975) is the co-founder of the social networking website MySpace along with Chris DeWolfe. He is regarded as the face of MySpace.
Anderson attended University of California, Berkeley from 1993 to 1996, and graduated in 1996 with two B.A. degrees, one in Rhetoric and the other in English [1]. From 1999 to 2000, he attended University of California, Los Angeles and graduated with a master's degree in film - critical studies. In 2003, he and a few computer programmers set up the first pages of MySpace, and the site grew from there. It is currently the most popular social networking website on the Internet.
Tom has set up the site to add him to every new MySpace member's friends list to help people get started, or in case they need any help. Bold textItalic textLink titleJASON EATS EGGS!!!!
MySpace parodies
Due to his notoriety on MySpace, Tom Anderson has become somewhat of a phenomenon in recent years. Being the most widely recognized face on MySpace has made him the subject of parody among its users, who set up fake MySpace accounts oriented around a comical theme or a character stereotype using Tom as the basis. Examples include "Pope Tom", "Pirate Tom", "Clown Tom", "Brokeback Tom", "Napoleon Tominite", "Serial Killer Tom", "Halo Tom,", "Toilet Tom" and "Emo Punk Goth Tom". The profiles are generally based around a Photoshopped (or sometimes simply decorated using Paint) image from Tom's MySpace profile, with humorous or satirical comments entered in the "About Me" section. The original photo from Tom's profile, featuring a smiling Tom in a white t-shirt hunched over a computer in front of a white dry-erase board backdrop, is a veritable blank canvas for users to edit into just about anything[2].