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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?"

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  1. Re:Julian Assange by KiloByte · · Score: 5, Informative

    The voting results were:

    1 Julian Assange 92 382024
    2 Recep Tayyip Erdogan 80 233639
    3 Lady Gaga 70 146378
    4 Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert 81 78145
    5 Glenn Beck 28 91746
    6 Barack Obama 58 27478
    7 Steve Jobs 61 24810
    8 The Chilean Miners 47 29124
    9 The Unemployed American 66 19605
    10 Mark Zuckerberg 52 18353

    What's the point in even asking for nominations if you choose some random lowlife anyway?

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  2. Re:Good choice by commodore64_love · · Score: 3, Informative

    >>>Email

    I didn't know my old classmates' addresses so could not contact them by email. With facebook I can just drag-out the old yearbook and search for real names, or search for people in my graduation year. Also located an old teacher that I liked. (He's retired.)

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  3. Re:Julian Assange by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Informative
    Yes, there are a few examples in the past when multiple people have been selected, although not many:
    • 1937: Chiang Kai-shek and Soong May-ling
    • 1968: The Apollo 8 astronauts (William Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell)

    And that's ignoring cases when it's been a group of people, such as:

    • 1950: The American Fighting-Man
    • 1960: US Scientists
    • 1966: The Generation Twenty-Five and Under.
    • 1975: American Women
    • 2006: You
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