Time Annnounces "Person Of The Year"

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time's person of the year, the magazine announced Wednesday.

"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," Time said on its Web site.

According to Chloe Albanesius at mcmag.com, Zuckerberg beat out the Tea Party, Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange, and the Chilean miners to capture the coveted title. He joins a group that in past years has included Ben Bernanke, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and You. The magazine's first person of the year was Charles Lindbergh in 1927.

"Being named as Time Person of the Year is a real honor and recognition of how our little team is building something that hundreds of millions of people want to use to make the world more open and connected. I'm happy to be a part of that," Zuckerberg said in a statement.

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