Not counting that cop-out choice in whatever year that was a picture of a computer monitor with "YOU" printed on it.
Time went PC years ago by calling this “Person of the Year” rather than “Man of the Year”, as it was originally known.
And the criteria were that the winner had the biggest impact of news events during the year, for good or for bad. Ayatollah Khomeini (sp?) won in 1979 due to the Iran revolution and hostage crisis. Hitler won in 1938 due to the events leading to World War II and his role in it.
So have we gone so pop culture in the news business that a software application inventor is the bigges newsmaker of the year? Maybe he is important to those who watch Jon Stewart instead of real news shows, but, I bet most people don’t know him by name, and will have to be told that he’s the inventor of Facebook to understand who this guy is.