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What social network started everyone off with a friend named Tom? Instagram Friendster MySpace Six Degrees ******** Answer: Before Instagram and Facebook, there was another social network on the scene: MySpace. When users created a new account on MySpace, they were assigned a "friend" named Tom, who greeted them in his profile picture with a smile. Even though Tom automatically showed up in everyone's "Top 8" friends, he wasn't a made-up person — Tom Anderson was actually the co-founder of MySpace. When Tom retired soon after MySpace was sold to News Corp for $580 million, new MySpace users were still greeted by "T.O.M" — but instead of Tom Anderson, it was the profile "Today On MySpace."