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Person of the Year 2010 [Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg]
TIME Magazine ^ | 12/15/10 | Lev Grossman

Posted on 12/15/2010 5:16:36 AM PST by Enchante

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, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME's 2010 Person of the Year.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2010review; culture; facebook; internet; manoftheyear; media; msm; usa; zuckerberg
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To: Enchante
TIME didn't pick Julian Assange for one reason: potentially HUGE negative feedback from subscribers and advertisers.

Does anyone remember what happened when TIME named Ayatollah Khomeini the 1979 Man of the Year? The magazine suffered HUGE financial losses from losing subscribers and advertisers that took years to recover from.

81 posted on 12/16/2010 5:54:28 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Enchante
but Sarah Palin and/or the Tea Party would have been a better choice for dramatic influence upon 2010 US public affairs

Here's a picture of worldwide facebook connections.

Sarah Palin and The Tea Party movement are small change by comparison.

82 posted on 12/16/2010 8:57:17 AM PST by r9etb
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To: coaltrain
Yes, when I need to know how to think, I look to Time to point me in the right direction. How can a bunch of lefty journalists with no real world experience steer me wrong

Great point! At least we know any info about yourself on Facebook will never be sold or posted anywhere else!

83 posted on 12/16/2010 12:19:42 PM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: r9etb

I said “for influence upon US public affairs” so the FB “map” is not the relevant comparison.

Also, millions or billions of “connections” worldwide does not necessarily translate into world historical significance — so much of what happens on Facebook (and I do use it) is utterly insignificant.

However, if the standard for POTY is for a “world” newsmaker then I certainly don’t quarrel with the choice of Zuckerberg for 2010. It still remains to be seen whether the lasting “cultural” impact of FB is all that big or just another flash in the pan ala AOL and Yahoo etc. Certainly FB is putting up big numbers of users, and I do enjoy it some, but a case can be made that it’s not (yet) making any big cultural and political “newsworthy” type of impact.


84 posted on 12/17/2010 12:58:46 AM PST by Enchante (12/10/10: Obama just abdicated his Presidency to Bill Clinton at the Tax Policy Press Conference!)
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To: Enchante
It still remains to be seen whether the lasting “cultural” impact of FB is all that big or just another flash in the pan ala AOL and Yahoo etc.

It's true that FB may, in itself, be another flash in the pan..... but let's look at what AOL and Yahoo! did. I won't say they made the internet what it is, but they made it accessible to tens of millions and opened the way for the internet to spread as it has.

What FB has done, is to help open up a style of communication that I have to think will spread worldwide. It's really just part of a larger sea change in communications that my kids are in the thick of (and I only barely understand). I think the Wikileaks thing is actually part of that phenomenon.

It stands a good chance of changing (for good or ill) the way people look at the world.

The most interesting thing about that map, IMO, is the big black areas in Asia: no Middle Eastern countries, and no China. It'll be interesting to see what happens when those areas start to fill in.

85 posted on 12/17/2010 7:18:18 AM PST by r9etb
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To: coaltrain

Well, coaltrain ... we stalk Geert Wilders over on this page ... :-)

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If you want to comment there ... just click the “Like” button next to the name of the page, right at the top. But, you do have to be signed-in to do that.


86 posted on 12/20/2010 3:41:52 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Dan Nunn
Nunnskull sez: "Lay off the trigger, son."

Son? Is that you, mommy?

87 posted on 01/06/2011 4:18:58 PM PST by coaltrain (Obama's a Harvard lawyer like Elvis was a Black Belt)
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