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TIME chooses its Person of the Year 2010.

Dec 15, 2010 05:21

Person of the Year 2010: Mark ZuckerbergBy Lev Grossman ( Read more... )

social media, time magazine

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danyjoncew December 15 2010, 14:24:57 UTC

Clearly, Justin Bieber got robbed.

dinosaur December 15 2010, 14:29:08 UTC

Safe choice.

proofrawk December 15 2010, 14:30:26 UTC

Agreed.

brewsternorth December 15 2010, 14:34:19 UTC

*nods*

I suppose we should be relieved they didn't choose the Tea Party.

anysomething December 15 2010, 16:51:24 UTC

I saw this first on facebook, and somebody there was like, "They probably should have chosen the Tea Party." -_-

but I agree with you.

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lroche_nf December 15 2010, 14:30:52 UTC

Love it or hate it, facebook has changed the way we relate to people. I think I saw a stat that if it was a country facebook would be the fifth largest in the world.

danyjoncew December 15 2010, 14:39:48 UTC

Take that, Orkut.

How does that math work though? Didn't Facebook reach 500 million users? That's more than the American population (3rd biggest in the world). Or did they mean 500 million accounts?

ook December 15 2010, 14:43:40 UTC

They probably mean accounts (one person can have several). Counting accounts (rather than actual users) is a good way to inflate user figures. eBay does it too.

danyjoncew December 15 2010, 14:49:46 UTC

Yeah but how would they estimate the number of actual users then? E-mail addresses used?

Now I'm curious.

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lithiumflower December 15 2010, 14:31:19 UTC

Boring, lame, irrelevant, but nice to know FB employees have as much privacy in their workplace as users have on its website.

mollywobbles867 December 15 2010, 14:34:02 UTC

Ugh. I hate facebook.