TIME Names Mark Zuckerberg Person of Year

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?"

Re:Julian Assange

[KiloByte]

The voting results were:

1 Julian Assange 92 382024
2 Recep Tayyip Erdogan 80 233639
3 Lady Gaga 70 146378
4 Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert 81 78145
5 Glenn Beck 28 91746
6 Barack Obama 58 27478
7 Steve Jobs 61 24810
8 The Chilean Miners 47 29124
9 The Unemployed American 66 19605
10 Mark Zuckerberg 52 18353

What's the point in even asking for nominations if you choose some random lowlife anyway?

Re:Good choice

[commodore64_love]

>>>Email

I didn't know my old classmates' addresses so could not contact them by email. With facebook I can just drag-out the old yearbook and search for real names, or search for people in my graduation year. Also located an old teacher that I liked. (He's retired.)

Re:Julian Assange

[TheRaven64]

Yes, there are a few examples in the past when multiple people have been selected, although not many:

• 1937: Chiang Kai-shek and Soong May-ling
• 1968: The Apollo 8 astronauts (William Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell)

And that's ignoring cases when it's been a group of people, such as:

• 1950: The American Fighting-Man
• 1960: US Scientists
• 1966: The Generation Twenty-Five and Under.
• 1975: American Women
• 2006: You