Facebook founder named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’
Posted December 15, 2010 8:39 am.
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Time magazine has named Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as ‘Person of the Year’ for 2010.
The 26-year-old is the second youngest person to win the award after aviator and inventor Charles Lindbergh.
It’s been a big year for Zuckerberg. His company was named best employer and a movie of his company “Social Network” is one of the favourites to win the Oscar.
The magazine’s managing editor, Rick Stengel, made the big announcement on NBC’s “Today Show.”
He said Zuckerberg has connected half a billion people, and that’s why he beat out the “Tea Party,” a loose affiliation of Americans united by their dislike of big government, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the Chilean miners.
One out of every dozen people on the planet has a Facebook account.
Time said it took Zuckerberg less than seven years to wire together a 12th of humanity into a single network, creating a social entity almost twice as large as the United States.
If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest, behind China and India.
