 Anderson is popularly known as "Tom from Myspace" because, until 2010, he would automatically be assigned as the first "friend" of new Myspace users upon the creation of their profiles.Anderson's father was an entrepreneur.As a teenager at San Pasqual High in Escondido, California, Anderson was a computer hacker under the pseudonym "Lord Flathead" (friends with Bill Landreth), and prompted a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raid after he cracked the security of Chase Manhattan Bank.