Facebook's Zuckerberg named Time's Person of the Year

[samsungster]

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Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has become the second-youngest person to be named Time magazine's Person of the Year.

Zuckerberg announced the news Wednesday on — where else? — Facebook, the juggernaut social media website that has more than 500 million users worldwide.

"Being named as Time Person of the Year is a real honor and recognition of how our little team is building something that hundreds of millions of people want to use to make the world more open and connected," Zuckerberg said on his Facebook fan page. "I'm happy to be a part of that."

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At 26 years old, Zuckerberg is the youngest person to be named Time's Person of the Year since aviator Charles Lindbergh, who was 25 when he was the magazine's Man of the Year in 1927.

Time said Zuckerberg was chosen "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."

The magazine also noted that "The Zuck" donated $100 million to schools in Newark, N.J., this year and "weathered the potential backlash of that not-so-little movie," a reference to "The Social Network," which portrayed him as having turned friends into enemies as Facebook rose to prominence.

Among the runners-up were WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the once-trapped Chilean miners and the "tea party" movement.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg named Time magazine's Person of the Year - latimes.com

[colby]

Congrats to him, but I don't really give a damn with Facebook.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai perhaps deserve it more, Facebook has been here for how long now? The movie "Social Network" maybe give him more boost in terms of publicity and interest.

[peewee_toot]

kita ko ani nga news ganina sa ANC. congrats!

[sandman2c]

awesome achievements at a young age.
handsdown

[Saga]

at 26 with this kind of achievement.. ug na maintain pa niya ang facebook unlike sa friendster nga nalipay ra sila sa ilaha initial progress and wala jud naningkamot nga mo offer ug new services and new stuffs...

[j.alob]

wew .

[geff_chang]

AND to think Julian Assange had the highest number of votes. meh @ TIME.

[cywizard]

congrats ani niya... sunod ani kay tag-iya na sa istorya... ^_^

[FranZeno]

Congrats niya! Such a feat for a very young age..mksuya..i've always wished na m.millionaire ko before I reach 30! LOL! Who knows bsta khbw lng maningkamot.

In this world, you win some, you lose some. Zuck won big time.

[haroldking]

good for him! congrats! still love multiply hehehe...