Mark Zuckerberg named Time 'Person of Year'
NEW YORK – Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2010.
At 26, Zuckerberg is the youngest "Person of the Year" since the first one chosen, Charles Lindbergh; he was 25 when he was named in 1927, Time said Wednesday. Zuckerberg beat out Britain's Queen Elizabeth II by just two weeks: She was 26 when she was named in 1952.
Incidentally, Queen Elizabeth II has recently joined Zuckerberg's social networking behemoth.
Zuckerberg has put himself on the map not only as one of the world's youngest billionaires, but also as a prominent newcomer to the world of philanthropy.
Earlier this year, he pledged $100 million over five years to the Newark, N.J. school system. Now, he's in the company of media titans Carl Icahn, 74, Barry Diller, 68, and others who have joined Giving Pledge, an effort led by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett to commit the country's wealthiest people to step up their charitable donations.
Zuckerberg owns about a quarter of Facebook's shares.
Zuckerberg has built Facebook into an international phenomenon by stretching the lines of social convention and embracing a new and far more permeable definition of community. In this new world, users are able to construct a social network well beyond what would ever be possible face-to-face.
"I'm trying to make the world a more open place," Zuckerberg says in the "bio" line of his own Facebook page.
Born in Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room, the site has in six years grown to more than 500 million users worldwide and a dollar worth in the billions.
Facebook was the subject of director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's film "The Social Network." It features a dark portrayal of Zuckerberg by Jesse Eisenberg, as well as the direction he's taking his company and his status as one of America's most influential figures.
The film has been picked as the best of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review. On Tuesday, it received six Golden Globe nominations, including best picture, drama, going up against its chief rival, the British monarchy tale "The King's Speech," which led with seven nominations.
Time's "Person of the Year" is the person or thing that has most influenced the culture and the news during the past year for good or for ill.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke received the honor last year. The 2008 winner was then-President-elect Barack Obama. The 2007 winner was Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Other previous winners have included Bono, President George W. Bush, and Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos.
미국중앙은행총재 버냉키, 버락 오바마, 블라드미러 푸틴,W부시, 아마존설립자 회장 제프 베자스, 영국 엘리자베스II여왕, 찰스 린드버그, 페이스북설립자 회장 마크 쥬커버그, 이들의 공통점은 무엇일까. 타임지는 매년 금년의 인물을 선정하는 데 지난 한 가장 큰 영향력을 행사한 사람을 선정하는 데 금년엔 26살의 페이스북 설립자를 선정햇다고 한다. 하바드의 기숫사 방에서 1불로 시작한 페이스북이겨우 6년만에5억명의 가입자를 가지고 수백억불의 가치를 가지고 있다고 한다. 금년초엔 향후 5년에 걸쳐 1억불을 자선금으로 내어 놓기로했다고 한다. ceo마크의 페이스북지분이 25%인 1/4이라고.
바다 건너 26젊은이가 최연소 세계적 거물로 탄생되었으니 마땅히 축하할 경사인 데 왜입맛이 이리두쓴지...