Comments on: Newsweek Confirms MySpace CoFounder Lied About Age

By: DodaPedia » Blog Archive » Career lessons from Susan Boyle’s success

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:15:00 +0000

[...] makes you cry. In the tech industry, being a young founder is so legendary that founders have lied about how old they are. And in mathematics, it’s always news if someone discovers something later than age 30 [...]

By: Pick of the Thicket 10.30.07 « Dallas Public Relations Expert Scott Baradell’s Media Orchard

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:12:42 +0000

[...] Alert Dateline: Tom of MySpace has been lying about his age (TechCrunch) [...]

By: Dealing with criticism and expectation | Tyme Said

Dealing with criticism and expectation | Tyme Said — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:14:54 +0000

[...] of expectation that a founder of a billion dollar business doesn’t have? The irony is, a Mike Arrington quote made me realize what I was doing wrong: Velioncho, reader comments, links and emails certainly [...]

By: Holy smokes! Steve Rubel said something relevant | Tyme Said

Holy smokes! Steve Rubel said something relevant | Tyme Said — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:09:44 +0000

[...] Tom, the MySpace founder, is lying about his age and has been lying from the beginning. If you read the comments on Tech Crunch you’ll immediately be able to tell the kid from the adult. This comment sums it up pretty [...]

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109 « commandN — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:54:06 +0000

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By: Londa

Londa — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:20:55 +0000

WHO THE F*CK CARES HOW OLD TOM IS, HELL CAPTAIN CRUNCH IS AS OLD AS DIRT YET HIS PICTURE REMAIN THE SAME, AS DOES MICKEY MOUSE ET AND ALL THE REST OF THE WORLDS ANIMATED CHARACTORS.

TO THE PERSON WHO CREATE THIS STORY, PLEASE TELL ME THAT YOU HAVE NEVER LIED ABOUT ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE. STOP BASHING TOM, ITS NOT LIKE ANYONE IS DATING HIM.. ARE YOU GUYS SERIOUS WITH THIS STUPID ASS STORY.

AND FURTHER MORE I LIE ABOUT MY AGE ALL THE TIME, BECAUSE I AM TIRED OF PEOPLE TELLING ME IM OLD..
SO IF TOM LIED ABOUT HIS AGE IN 2003 WHO PURELY GIVES A DAMN. HE WAS AN ADULT THEN AND HE IS AN ADULT NOW.

GET YOUR OWN FREAKEN LIFE YOU COMMENTAL BASTARD

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:09:06 +0000

Who cares?

By: alcachofa asesina

alcachofa asesina — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:00:24 +0000

he was my friend and he lied to me!!!
i don’t know if our friendship will be saved after this.

By: Sebhelyesfarku

Sebhelyesfarku — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:22:24 +0000

I’m 19 years old, and my penis is 9″.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:55:19 +0000

Ditto. So what?

Is he molesting 13-year-old girls? Uh, no.

By: WHO CARES?

WHO CARES? — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:13:36 +0000

Really NEWSWEEK? Shame on you. You are NEWSWEEK – go find some NEWS to cover.

How about giving us information on DAFUR?

Who cares if someone pulls back a year or two off their age to sell their product. CELEBS do it ALL THE TIME.

That’s not even NEWSWORTHY.

Who still reads NEWSWEEK anyway? And now we know why…..

By: Escribitionist128

Escribitionist128 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:09:55 +0000

All good points, realistically “Tom” is merely a character for branding on myspace. He is the average guy that works to market the social network. His real age is irrelevant, just as the reality that he isn’t the one sending you messages from his profile.

It is interesting that this is such a point of contention, I agree with sodapop and the others; age on myspace is irrelevant.

By: Low

Low — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:00:05 +0000

I think this is the beauty of TechCrunch. I’m laughing out loud.

By: Pierre Col - UbicMedia

Pierre Col - UbicMedia — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:38:09 +0000

Another short story about ages and dates: I’ve tried to post on some video sharing site (I don’remember which, unfortunately) the first movie ever shot, in France, year 1895, by the Lumiere bros.

It was impossible. No way to enter Do you believe that ? The guys managing this video sharing site DID NOT KNOW that the cinema was invented before 1900

http://youtube....h?v=sHhPWiTz_zc
http://exemple.pumit.com

By: Pierre Col - UbicMedia

Pierre Col - UbicMedia — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:29:38 +0000

I’m 200% convinced that Tom i a dog. Really.
http://www-db.s...nternet_075.gif

So his age is not a lie

By: Tsarin

Tsarin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:24:57 +0000

In the USA, the value of Truth still seems rather low. What an unhealthy society where the founder of a multi hundreds-of-millions of dollar company blatnatly lies in public and most people don’t care.

That place only happens when people are scared and they value money over all else. This is a person revered because he’s taken a bunch of money from others. So sick.

It’s gotten to the point where almost everyone in power lies now, at least in the USA. It is common, accepted, almost expected. It has started from the top, from CEOs, the president, clergy, creationist teachers, all over.

By: Ryan Mickle

Ryan Mickle — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:16:32 +0000

Definitely ironic. Of course, further irony exists in the fact that the site is an LA-based venture… does anyone tell the truth about their age (or anything, for that matter) in LA? Maybe they’ll lie about their traffic next. Then they might sue the users who stop using Myspace.

Had I ever advertised on Myspace, I’d probably go back for a refund on the principle that their demographics are all lies… if the founder isn’t honest on his profile, please try to convince me that his legion of followers don’t find reporting one’s age correctly as trivial as he did.

By: Austin Storm

Austin Storm — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:33:10 +0000

Oh noooo Tech Crunch has JUMPED teh SHARK!

Ha, just kidding. Don’t ever change, TechCrunch.

By: d3bruts1d

d3bruts1d — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:14:52 +0000

Who gives a shit?

By: Willow

Willow — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:44:56 +0000

Will his profile be fixed or deleted just like they threaten when you put an age like 99? To all the men who say women do it all the time….apparently men do too, one of you just got caught LOL.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:40:09 +0000

Who cares? Women do this all the time.

I may have even told a model once that I was a doctor who liked to race F1 cars in my spare time when I wasn’t saving kittens from burning trees.

By: Inbos del martes 30/10 « ConsumoWeb

Inbos del martes 30/10 « ConsumoWeb — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:20:22 +0000

[...] Newsweek confirma la mentira sobre la edad del cofundador de MySpace (link) [...]

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:20:14 +0000

If nothing else, this meme proves that blogs possess a huge influence over the more ‘traditional’ sources of info. Congrats Mike, I think your experiment to see if you could get these sites (CNET, Newsweek) to embrace a worthless story has been a complete success. Sadly, it’s this victory that we should all be worried about, not that some guy named Tom is older than he stated in his profile. Your influence in this world may be fleeting, so why not use it to draw out that which matters, not that which banal beyond belief?

By: esofthub

esofthub — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:18:52 +0000

Not really sure how this post is useful. My thought…who the heck cares about someone’s age on a myspace page.