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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. I didn't know they named cunts person of the year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mark Zuckerberg is a lying, stealing cunt. Who would've thought a pathetic shit like him could be named Person of the Year. I hope he gets raped by bears.

  2. Re:For Better or *for Worse* ... by kiwimate · · Score: 0, Troll

    My lord, a handful of comments and already I've seen two comparisons to Hitler. That is pathetic, even by Slashdot standards. Why the vitriol? If you don't like Facebook, don't use it. How hard is this to understand? How is it really impacting your life, other than that it's, well, everywhere in the news and on promotional websites and so forth? (Which kind of might give you an indication as to why Zuckerberg got to this point.)

    I've already given comments in previous stories on why I use Facebook and what value it gives to me, so I won't repeat them here. But for those who can't understand why he should be "person of the year", try thinking for a minute.

    • Facebook is easily the most successful social network site over the last couple of years, far eclipsing MySpace, Bebo, etc.
    • Major companies use it to run advertising campaigns. It's huge. Seriously, big. Have the people commenting here even noticed just how many companies these days have a "like us on Facebook" link to get some kind of promotional item? A "follow us on Facebook" link? Facebook has changed the way companies conduct their business. Think about that for a moment.
    • Heck, even Slashdot has the ubiquitous "share on Facebook" icon.

    Seriously...comparisons to Hitler and Stalin? You really need to get some perspective, mate.

  3. Re:Julian Assange by ubermiester · · Score: -1, Troll

    I disagree.

    What exactly has Assange done to change anything? He has a lot of fanbois who like to think they're changing the world, but Facebook actually has changed the world. Every day 500 million people use Facebook to interact in ways that were unimaginable only a few years ago.

    Zuckerberg might be a douchbag, and an entire generation of people are going to spend the rest of their lives regretting things they posted online, but his work has definitely had more of an impact that Assange at this point.

    Of course if Wikileaks ends up breaking some actual conspiracy rather than a bunch of gotchas that add up to nothing, then maybe he'll get it next year.