Surprisingly, it's FACEBOOK's own Mark Zuckerberg! Can't say I'm mad at that...dude has accomplished A LOT!!!
Zuckerberg (26) is the 2nd youngest person to receive the honor. “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.”
AGREED!
Zuckerberg won the title over WikiLeak's Julian Assange (the favorite in a readers' poll), the Tea Party, the Chilean Miners, Apple's Steve Jobs and Afghanistan leader Hamid Karzai. Tough list, eh?
Stengel continues his applause of Zuckerberg by saying, "More than half a billion people on the planet live in a world created by Mark Zuckerberg. The good news is, their friends all live there too. Zuckerberg founded the social networking site Facebook in his college dorm six years ago, but 2010 was the year that Facebook reached critical mass, both in sheer quantity of users and in its presence (through its 'connect' features) all over the Web."
CONGRATS to Mark!
