This is the Mark Zuckerberg who is the second-youngest individual ever to be named Time magazine’s Person of the Year: Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of the omnipresent social-networking site Facebook.
“It’s something that is transforming the way we live our lives every day,” Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel said as he announced the magazine’s 2010 selection live on TODAY Wednesday. “It’s social engineering, changing the way we relate to each other.”
If you regularly use a computer, you may feel as though you already know the 26-year-old Zuckerberg. And maybe you’ve seen the acclaimed movie “The Social Network,” which portrays Zuckerberg as socially stunted, calculating and arrogant. But Stengel told TODAY’s Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira that there’s more to the multibillionaire CEO.
They shook hands and chatted about nothing for a couple of minutes, and then Mueller left. There was a giddy silence while everybody just looked at one another as if to say, What the hell just happened? Stengel said Zuckerberg stands out for accomplishing something that’s never been done before. “This year they passed 500 million users — one in 10 people on the planet.“He’s our second-youngest Person of the Year,” Stengel added; only Charles Lindbergh, named the magazine’s very first Man of the Year back in 1927 when he was only 25, was younger. “He’s deeply affected by it.”
“It’s about the idea that most applications are going to become social, and most industries are going to be rethought in a way where social design and doing things with your friends is at the core of how these things work,” he added.Zuckerberg has big plans to expand the social model, not just on the Web, but everywhere: In your car, on your TV, on your mobile device.
the person listed for Time’s 2010 Person of the Year is given bellow....
* Julian Assange
* Glenn Beck
* David Cameron
* The Chilean Miners
* Arne Duncan
* Recep Tayyip Erdogan
* Jonathan Franzen
* Lady Gaga
* Robert Gates
* Tony Hayward
* Hu Jintao
* LeBron James
* Steve Jobs
* Hamid Karzai
* David and Charles Koch
* Liu Xiaobo
* Barack Obama
* Sarah Palin
* Nancy Pelosi
* Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
* Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
* The Unemployed American
* J. Craig Venter
* Elizabeth Warren, Mary Schapiro and Sheila Bair
* Mark Zuckerberg
.”The magazine has picked a Person of the Year each year since 1927. Here is a look back at just some of them:
* 1930: Mohandas Gandhi
* 1938: Adolf Hitler
* 1939: Joseph Stalin
* 1940: Winston Churchill
* 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt
* 1952: Queen Elizabeth II
* 1961: John F. Kennedy
* 1963: Martin Luther King Jr.
* 1966: 25-and-under generation
* 1971: Richard M. Nixon
* 1975: American women
* 1976: Jimmy Carter
* 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini
* 1980: Ronald Reagan
* 1982: The computer
* 1989: Mikhail Gorbachev
* 1992: Bill Clinton
* 1994: Pope John Paul II
* 2000: George W. Bush
* 2001: Rudolph Giuliani
* 2006: You
* 2007: Vladimir Putin
* 2008: Barack Obama
As for his portrayal in “The Social Network,” Zuckerberg took it in stride.
“I found it funny what details they focused on getting right. I think I owned every single T-shirt that they had me wearing,” he told Time. “But the
biggest thing that thematically they missed is ... the actual motivation for what we’re doing, which is, we think it’s an awesome thing to do.”
