Mark Zuckerberg: TIME Magazine's Person of the Year for 2010

By PopEater Staff Posted Dec 15th 2010 08:15AM

TIME Magazine has announced its 2010 Person of the Year, and it's the same guy who starred in one of the year's biggest films -- sort of. Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old Facebook creator and subject of Oscar front-runner 'The Social Network,' notched the honor "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," TIME writes.

The magazine's Person of the Year package includes a long profile of Zuckerberg, an essay, videos inside Facebook HQ and photos of Zuckerberg now and in his youth.

Zuckerberg beat Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for the top spot. See TIME's video interview with Zuckerberg after the jump.

Zuckerberg became the world's youngest billionaire at age 23. Facebook has more than 500 million users today.

David Fincher's 'The Social Network,' dramatizing the inception of Facebook with Jesse Eisenberg portraying Zuckerberg as an antisocial, almost sociopathic programming whiz, has been notching many honors on the road to Academy Awards season. The film accepted Best Picture honors from the National Board of Review, the New York Film Festival and various critics' groups and just earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Picture (Drama).

TIME's person of the year debuted in 1927, the year the magazine began.

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Wednesday 15 December

By roger

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Do the Golden Globes already know who won? Thought that "Social Network" was just nominated yesterday, but this article says that it won Best Picture from the Globes.

By fjf

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Read the article AGAIN!!! It says that the picture was honored for Best Picture by the NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW...and EARNED a Golden Globe NOMINATION!!!

By Anne

At 26 it must make him feel great to have this kind of recognition. Congrats kiddo.

By smick1953

I'm glad this guy's going to be on the cover of Time. Now I'll have a really good sized target for my darts! This Facebook has ruined this world-not that it needed any more help! No privacy, egotistical people blabbing about everything that is so unimportant! Then they cry when their identity is stolen! Don't go on it-don't buy into it! It's caused more trouble than it's helped!

By gobluespartyon

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Sounds like your jealous FB hasn't caused no problems so your claims are baseless & lies. Your a loser that needs to get a life.

By tony

i was supposed to be person of the year but my head was too big for the cover,damn.

CONGRATS Mark Zuckerberg on being Time Person Of The Year.

Thursday 16 December

That's not what the article originally stated. It said received Best Picture honors from the Golden Globes and then went into the National Board of Review, etc. It was edited.
Poor proofreading, or a too-early announcement?

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