Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg named Time's 2010 Person of the Year

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Source: MSNBC

By Laura T. Coffey
TODAYshow.com contributor TODAYshow.com contributor



Meet the second-youngest individual ever to be named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year: Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of the omnipresent social-networking site Facebook.

You may feel as though you already know the 26-year-old. If you regularly use a computer, you probably interact with Zuckerberg’s Facebook empire on at least some level.

And maybe you’ve seen the acclaimed movie “The Social Network,” which portrays Zuckerberg as socially stunted, calculating and arrogant.

But is there more to this story? Yes, TIME editors discovered — and that’s what prompted the magazine to choose the multibillionaire CEO for the Person of the Year distinction.

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The magazine’s No. 2 runner-up after Zuckerberg was the Tea Party, a loose affiliation of American citizens united by their dislike of big government.

No. 3: Julian Assange, whose WikiLeaks organization has shared reams of sensitive diplomatic cables with the world.

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