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TIME Names Mark Zuckerberg Person of Year

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the remember-when-it-was-you dept.

theodp writes "Sorry, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates — there's a new geek kid in town. TIME magazine has selected Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as its Person of the Year. Why? '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,' reasoned TIME At age 26, Zuckerberg is TIME's second-youngest selection, bested only by Charles Lindbergh. So what does Zuckerberg do for an encore — Academy Award, maybe?"

5 of 317 comments (clear)

  1. Re:orly? by Pojut · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just this year?

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    Living With a Nerd
  2. Re:orly? by anshulajain · · Score: 4, Funny

    more like douche-bag of the year.

    http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Mark_Zuckerberg. Hilarious

  3. Big Deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I won it in 2006.

  4. Breaking news by dsavi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Today Time Magazine announced the Person of the Year 2007.

  5. Re:Zuckerberg over Assange? by RDW · · Score: 4, Funny

    Assange probably doesn't know yet:

    http://www.metro.co.uk/news/850389-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-slams-visa-mastercard-and-paypal

    'The only letter to reach him during the week he has spent in the prison's segregation unit was a slip telling him that a copy of Time magazine sent to him had been destroyed as the cover bore his photo, Mr Stephens said...The American news publication pictured Assange on the front with an image of the US stars and stripes flag gagging him.'

    Just to mess with him, the prison should let him have the new issue with everything from this story except the words 'Person of the year' redacted.