Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named Person of the Year by Time magazine. Yep, Mark Zuckerberg. Not Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Not imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Not even the Chilean miners. Mark Zuckerberg.
Time’s Lev Grossman wrote that Zuckerberg received the honor “[f]or connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives.” The inconvenient truth, of course, is that Zuckerberg basically did all that about six years ago, when he created Facebook. But he did have a movie made about him this year. And it was really good. Besides, Zuckerberg’s young, and young people use Facebook, and Time magazine wants to stay hip with the kids. So it totally makes sense. You can find Time’s full explanation here, and read about things you probably already knew.
Time Magazine Names Facebook’s Zuckerberg Person of the Year. Seriously. originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.