Person of the Year

When I think of Mark Zuckerberg the first thing that comes to mind is obviously Facebook, but now he has a new claim to fame as well.  TIME magazine chose him as the 2010 Person of the Year for his involvement in the popular social networking website.  I personally can thank Zuckerberg for hours of time procrastinating my homework while browsing the website, but he's made a bigger impact than that.  One in twelve people in the world have a Facebook account, and 70% of those people DON'T live in the United States.  Almost half of all Americans have a Facebook account and there are 550 million members total, which looks like this, 550000000.  According to TIME magazine, if Facebook users made up a country it would be the third largest in the world, only behind China and India.  Zuckerberg has undoubtedly connected the world in a way no one ever has before.

But why did Zuckerberg receive this award THIS year, and not say, last year.  Well I think it has quite a lot to do with the fact that the popular movie, The Social Network came out in October and opened the countries eyes to the founder of the internet phenomenon.  But Jesse Eisenberg didn't exactly portray Zuckerberg in a positive light.  He made him look like a cheating, morally uncentered, greedy man who cheats his own friends out of good fortune.  But obviously the movie did Zuckerberg some good as it was him, not Eisenberg, who came out with the title "Person of the Year".  Even if Zuckerberg does seem unlovable, I can't deny he's revolutionary and definitely affects my life.  So thank you Mark Zuckerberg, for your Facebook contribution to the world.

Mark Zuckerberg, you make me optimistic that I can connect with almost anyone I would ever want to as easily as I can type their name, and that's pretty cool.