Time Magazine: Person of the Year
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named as Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2010 because of his influence on news trends and culture.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time’s “Person of the Year” for 2010, joining the ranks of winners that include heads of state and rock stars as the person the magazine believes most influenced events of the past year.
New York – Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time’s “Person of the Year” for 2010, joining the ranks of winners that include heads of state and rock stars as the person the magazine believes most influenced events of the past year.
At 26, Zuckerberg is the youngest “Person of the Year” since the first one chosen, Charles Lindbergh; he was 25 when he was named in 1927, Time said on Wednesday. Zuckerberg beat out Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II by just two weeks: She was 26 when she was named in 1952.
Incidentally, Queen Elizabeth II has recently joined Zuckerberg’s social networking behemoth.
Time’s “Person of the Year” is the person or thing that has most influenced the culture and the news during the past year for good or for ill. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke received the honour last year. The 2008 winner was then-president-elect Barack Obama. The 2007 winner was Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Other previous winners have included Bono, President George W. Bush, and Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos.
In naming Zuckerberg, Time cited him “for changing how we all live our lives”.
In a posting on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that being named Time’s “Person of the Year” was “a real honour and recognition of how our little team is building something that hundreds of millions of people want to use to make the world more open and connected. I’m happy to be a part of that.”
Zuckerberg has put himself on the map not only as one of the world’s youngest billionaires, but also as a prominent newcomer to the world of philanthropy.
Earlier this year, he pledged $100-million over five years to the Newark, New Jersey, school system. Now, he’s in the company of media titans Carl Icahn Barry Diller and others who have joined Giving Pledge, an effort led by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett to commit the country’s wealthiest people to step up their charitable donations.
Zuckerberg owns about a quarter of Facebook’s shares.
Zuckerberg has built Facebook into an international phenomenon by stretching the lines of social convention and embracing a new and far more permeable definition of community. In this new world, users are able to construct a social network well beyond what would ever be possible face-to-face.
“I’m trying to make the world a more open place,” Zuckerberg says in the “bio” line of his own Facebook page.
Born in Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room, the site has in six years grown to more than 500-million users worldwide and a dollar worth in the billions.
Facebook was the subject of director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s film The Social Network. It features a dark portrayal of Zuckerberg by Jesse Eisenberg, as well as the direction he’s taking his company and his status as one of America’s most influential figures.
The film has been picked as the best of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review. On Tuesday, it received six Golden Globe nominations, including best picture, drama, going up against its chief rival, the British monarchy tale The King’s Speech, which led with seven nominations. – Sapa-AP
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