Thomas "Tom" Anderson (born November 8, 1970) 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'", because, until 2010, he would automatically be assigned as the first "friend" of new Myspace users upon the creation of their profiles.