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Rahodeb

Rahodeb

Los Angeles, CA
March 2006

OCT 24, 2007 03:36 PM



Yesterday, TechCrunch posted a story claiming that Tom Anderson - everybody's first friend on MySpace - is actually four or five years older than his profile and wikipedia page state.

How old is he really? We first heard 40. We dug a little online and came up with nothing. But then we got a senior person at MySpace to talk to us about it off record at the Web 2.0 Summit last week: this person confirmed that he’s really “36 or 37? and that MySpace has been trying to keep this quiet for some time.

My first reaction was, "Seriously, who gives a shit?" I mean, really: No one would have decided against joining MySpace just because Tom was a few years older. Does anyone really care about whether their social networking site was "created" by a 26-year-old, versus a 31-year-old? Then I started to wonder...okay, what was Tom up to during those four or five missing years? See, now that becomes interesting. Why has his true age been covered up? Because the marketing team thought it'd be more appealing if the face of the company was younger, or because Tom was up to something naughty during the years that got erased?

Why would he do this? Maybe so that the company looked cooler, started by 20-somethings instead of 30-somethings when it first launched in 2003. Or maybe there’s another reason. Whatever it is, lying to your users, your tens of millions of users, can’t be a good thing in the long run. If you can’t trust the founders to be truthful in their profiles, how can you trust what anyone says on the site. The answer may simply be that you can’t.

Whatever. I still kind of can't bring myself to care. Hit me with a juicy story of Tom's wherabouts during those lost years, and I'll be all ears, but otherwise, I couldn't care less.

What about you? Do you give a rats ass about Tom's real age? Do you have a hunch as to why they lied? And best of all, where do you think Tom was during the years that were erased?

Coyotemike

Coyotemike

USA
May 2006

OCT 24, 2007 04:04 PM

I never felt so free as I did the day I deleted my myspace page. Ahhhh, freedom!!!

I think he is actually a 72 year old lesbian prison inmate with a vast career of hot-dog stand heists.

But that's just me.

Cigarette

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH
April 2004

OCT 24, 2007 04:11 PM

Shit, if we can get used to our mothers doing it, I think we can get past's Tom's little indiscretion.

djtombino

djtombino

Italy
October 2007

OCT 24, 2007 04:12 PM

I am still in myspace and I met some nice people there, well, non one is a suicide girl, but some has piercing and nice tatoos.
For me Tom....who cares? oink

CherryCoke

CherryCoke

Derry, NH
May 2007

OCT 24, 2007 04:15 PM

He wouldn't be the first person to lie about their age on the internet.

Skywisdom

Skywisdom

Portland, OR
December 2005

OCT 24, 2007 04:19 PM

CherryCoke said:
He wouldn't be the first person to lie about their age on the internet.



"He's" actually a 16 year old girls pretending to be a 37 year old man. She's trying to balance out the web a little.

erin_broadley

erin_broadley

Los Angeles, CA
October 2006

OCT 24, 2007 04:33 PM

i think my profile says i'm 97-years-old. which, of course, i am. i have oil of olay to thank for my dewy visage. so damn you tom. time to own up. perhaps he's trying to score with younger babes on the site?

Spiffy

Spiffy

Calgary, AB
March 2007

OCT 24, 2007 04:35 PM

People still use MySpace? whatever

Trahern

Trahern

United Kingdom
March 2003

OCT 24, 2007 04:37 PM

...Who?

CherryCoke

CherryCoke

Derry, NH
May 2007

OCT 24, 2007 05:04 PM

Skywisdom said:

CherryCoke said:
He wouldn't be the first person to lie about their age on the internet.



"He's" actually a 16 year old girls pretending to be a 37 year old man. She's trying to balance out the web a little.


So she's an antipedo?

crispy

crispy

NEWSWIRE

Philadelphia, PA

OCT 24, 2007 05:26 PM



WUUUUUUH?

RileyStClair

RileyStClair

Los Angeles, CA
September 2006

OCT 24, 2007 05:33 PM

like many other myspace users, his profile picture is also horribly outdated and deceptively flattering.
we used to run into him in santa monica all the time because he lived down the street from one of my friends.

so, not only is he older, he's also much more bloated.

SouGei

SouGei

Blackwood, NJ
January 2007

OCT 24, 2007 05:51 PM

Unexpected error.

traceelement

traceelement

Australia
March 2005

OCT 24, 2007 06:09 PM

people actually have tom on their friends list?

Skywisdom

Skywisdom

Portland, OR
December 2005

OCT 24, 2007 06:16 PM

CherryCoke said:

Skywisdom said:

CherryCoke said:
He wouldn't be the first person to lie about their age on the internet.



"He's" actually a 16 year old girls pretending to be a 37 year old man. She's trying to balance out the web a little.


So she's an antipedo?



Antitpedsis.
Antitheped.
something.

boygriv

boygriv

Arcata, CA
December 2006

OCT 24, 2007 06:17 PM

I like how this was told to someone off the record, now it's here.

I only clicked on this because I was thinking of Tom ARNOLD. I was like "who gives a shit about Tom Arnold. I have to see what the big deal about Tom Arnold is." Aha.

Salura

Salura

Philadelphia, PA
June 2006

OCT 24, 2007 06:31 PM

RileyStClair said:
like many other myspace users, his profile picture is also horribly outdated and deceptively flattering.
we used to run into him in santa monica all the time because he lived down the street from one of my friends.

so, not only is he older, he's also much more bloated.



that is the most amazing piece of information i have EVER READ.

Poe

Poe

SUICIDEGIRL

Maine, USA

OCT 24, 2007 07:28 PM

I didn't even know who Tom Anderson was, much less his phony age. I'm gonna have have to go with no, I don't give a crap about Tom or why he, like so many people his age on myspace, lies about his age.

spyder13

spyder13

San Francisco, CA
October 2006

OCT 24, 2007 07:33 PM

Trahern said:
...Who?



That was my reaction too.

Obviously, I don't have a myspace page. The only online community I am a member of is Suicide Girls. It seems to be the only community that actually provides intelligence, news, comedy, art, fashion, ... the list goes on. Oh, and of course beauty! So no thanks Tom "whoever" and thank you Missy!!

wereduck

wereduck

I'm lost
July 2007

OCT 24, 2007 07:59 PM



Do you give a rats ass about Tom's real age? Do you have a hunch as to why they lied? And best of all, where do you think Tom was during the years that were erased?



To answer your questions in order:

-No.
-To cover up their secret robot-alien invasion.
-Training with underwater ninjas to better spy on dorm girls.

Noctua

Noctua

San Francisco, CA
February 2004

OCT 24, 2007 08:42 PM

"Do You Give a Shit about Tom Anderson's True Age"

There, fixed it.

sonic_tooth

sonic_tooth

Kansas City, MO
April 2007

OCT 24, 2007 08:50 PM

The only reason I'm on Myspace is to keep up with bands that don't keep their "real" sites updated. So.

Ferretbite

Ferretbite

Mexico
September 2006

OCT 24, 2007 09:19 PM

Tom Who? confused

caellum

caellum

Denver, CO
July 2004

OCT 24, 2007 11:19 PM

Why must Tom deny our secret love? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?????????? I LOVE YOU TOM, SO MUCH LAGAGAHSGHJAHJASBJKASNJKNJKSANDJKANDKLSANKLNSA

Clidna

Clidna

Canada
January 2005

OCT 24, 2007 11:35 PM

OMG somebody on teh interwebs lied about their age?

That's it.

Shut 'er down.

If we don't have honesty on the internet, where are we??? whatever

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