Time named the 26-year-old Zuckerberg "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."
Zuckerberg started the Web site in 2004, when he was a sophomore at Harvard University. Facebook became the top social networking site in 2008, surpassing MySpace. The company boasts more than 500 million users, with 1 million new users signing up for the service every day. "The Social Network," a movie about Facebook's creation was released on Oct. 1, and has been a hit at the box office and among critics.
Some people were disappointed with Time's choice of Zuckerberg, believing that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was the magazine's No. 3 runner-up, should have been this year's No. 1 pick. The Tea Party movement was the magazine's second choice, with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and the Chilean miners other runners-up.
Time first started choosing its "Person of the Year" in 1927, with Charles Lindbergh as its pick; Lindbergh was chosen for the first successful solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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