What Virus Is Going Around In January 2010

THE SOCIAL PERSON

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TIME today announced that the traditional face on the cover of "Person of the Year" for 2010 will be to late adolescence Marc Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. This
motivation:

"Almost seven years ago, in February 2004, when she was a nineteen year old freshman at Harvard, Zuckerberg created a website from his bedroom at the College. His name TheFacebook.com, and was presented as an "electronic directory that connects people through social networks of universities." This year, Facebook - which has lost on the way the article "the" - reached the 550milionesimo writing. One person every twelve on this planet has a Facebook account. Taken together, Facebook users have a host who speaks 75 languages, spent 700 billion minutes a year on the site, and increases by about 700 thousand people every day. What happened? In less than seven years, Zuckerberg has tied one-twelfth of the entire world population in a single network, thus creating a social almost double than the U.S. population. If facebbok were a country, would be the third largest in the world population, second only to China and India. It began as a joke, a hobby, but turned into something real, something that has changed the way in which human beings relate to each other on a plan that involves the entire species. Today we conduct our social life through a network of non-profit ... that, at least on paper, made billionaire Zuckerberg six times. Facebook has emerged as the social fabric of American life, indeed, not only American but a human one: almost half of all American citizens have a Facebook account, but 70% of Facebook users live outside the USA. It is a given permanent social reality of our global economy. We have entered the era of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is the man who brought us here. "

's all true, although in hindsight it is a phenomenon that has scored at least the last three or four years, and 2010 in particular, the growth of the site that this year was no follow without spikes a constant trend in place for years . If anything, this is the year in which this story has been told to the world, being represented in film "The Social Network , which in turn could be seen in many ways the film of the year.

Last year, the "Person of the Year" for TIME was the 2009 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, the year before, of course, the newly elected Barack Obama.
This year the favorite seemed to be the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange, who also won the poll popular on the site of the week (where Zuckerberg was stopped just in tenth place), but that had already appeared on the cover the number of two weeks ago, which sounded like effects in second place on the podium.

Not surprisingly, the portrait that supports and supplements the grounds gives you a sort of justification:

"Zuckerberg and Assange are two sides of same coin. Both express a desire for transparency. While Assange attacks institutions and governments with a degree involuntary transparency with the aim of undermining, Zuckerberg puts individuals in a position to share information voluntarily, with the idea to strengthen them. Assange sees the world as full of enemies, real and imaginary; Zuckmberg sees it full of potential friends. Both have little account of privacy: if Assange because it feels like something that allows the ill to flourish, and in case of Zuckerberg because he sees it as a cultural anachronism, a hindrance than a connection more effective and focused among the people. "

The piece ends by noting that "in 26 years, Zuckerberg is one year older than what had been the first" Man of the Year "for TIME, Charles Lindbergh - another young man who used the technology to build a bridge between continents. Is the same age that had Queen Elizabeth when she was "Person of the Year" in 1952, but unlike the Queen, did not inherit an empire: it created one. "