Time's Person of the Year: Who do you think it should be?
- December 15, 2010 10:53 AM |
- By POV
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year. (Time Magazine/Associated Press)
By CBC News
Time magazine has named Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the social networking website Facebook, as its 2010 Person of the Year.
The 26-year-old was chosen "for 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," Time said.
Runners-up included the conservative Tea Party organization, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the rescued Chilean miners.
Zuckerberg is the second-youngest person to have been chosen by the magazine since it began naming a person of the year in 1927, managing editor Rick Stengel announced Wednesday morning on NBC's Today show.
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