Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Wins TIME Mag’s Person of the Year
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 5:22 AM
Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange cleaned up in the online voting but even far left TIME Magazine couldn’t quite give him the award.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg won the Person of the Year award instead.
The Tea Party Nation did not make the list even though they were able to stop the onslaught of socialism dead in its tracks this year with the historic wave election in November.
Zuckerberg wins Person of the Year Award.
TIME Magazine reported:
Almost seven years ago, in February 2004, when Zuckerberg was a 19-year-old sophomore at Harvard, he started a Web service from his dorm. It was called Thefacebook.com, and it was billed as “an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges.” This year, Facebook — now minus the the — added its 550 millionth member. One out of every dozen people on the planet has a Facebook account. They speak 75 languages and collectively lavish more than 700 billion minutes on Facebook every month. Last month the site accounted for 1 out of 4 American page views. Its membership is currently growing at a rate of about 700,000 people a day.
What just happened? In less than seven years, Zuckerberg wired together a twelfth of humanity into a single network, thereby creating a social entity almost twice as large as the U.S. If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest, behind only China and India. It started out as a lark, a diversion, but it has turned into something real, something that has changed the way human beings relate to one another on a species-wide scale. We are now running our social lives through a for-profit network that, on paper at least, has made Zuckerberg a billionaire six times over.
Facebook has merged with the social fabric of American life, and not just American but human life: nearly half of all Americans have a Facebook account, but 70% of Facebook users live outside the U.S. It’s a permanent fact of our global social reality. We have entered the Facebook age, and Mark Zuckerberg is the man who brought us here.
HotAir added: “Will Taiwanese animators be next?”
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Mike in VA commented:
big whoop
antilbr commented:
You mean it was not Obama……what happened….He really must be losing that midas touch…i see a temper tantrum in the oval office today….3…2….1…
Warthog commented:
As was stated above, “Time, big whoop.”
However, it is better that someone who has wrought a positive change in the world. Trite as most Facebook posts are, they do connect you with other human beings.
Consider, It’s better that we have a forum for communicating directly than go through some filter (see Sarah Palin’s Tweets and FB posts, rather than hoping some news organization will give us a straight quote instead of their slant).
For that he is to be lauded.
( Better he gets it than that Assange character, anyway …)
Chippy commented:
The Time award goes to the person who invented an internet site that the United States government spies on.
“The government is increasingly monitoring Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites for tax delinquents, copyright infringers and political protesters.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/opinion/13sun2.html
Congratulations to Mark, Time and the out of control U.S. Government.
fyi commented:
Actually, the Tea Party movement is one of the runner-ups:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037118,00.html
averagemelon commented:
Poor Chippy. The government is out to get you!
Crawl back into the basement and use your HAM radio to talk to your friends…if you have a few.
BurmaShave commented:
The Tea Party Movement was the biggest event of the year, but that is simply beyond the ken of the ideological idiots at TIME.
TIME should buy Newsweek (it’s really cheap). Then they can embrace themselves like gay lovers, and jumped off lovers leap.
Does someone think that is snarky? It is standard fare for TIME-Newsweek.
shibumi commented:
Obama is going to be totally bummed.
I hope he doesn’t nuke Time magazine in anger.
GLM In Ohio commented:
I have to admit, I’m shocked that it wasn’t Obama ….
GLM In Ohio commented:
It really should have been Obama, since it seems TIME has been awarding it to so many dictators and tyrants recently …