Facebook creator Zuckerberg has been named Time Person of the Year 2010, a move which has shocked the majority of the magazine’s audience. Based on Time’s own audience poll results, WikiLeaks founder Assange won in a landslide with 382,024 ballots. To be more specific, that’s 150,000 more ballots than the number 2 slot – Turkey’s pm – received. Mark Zuckerberg did crack the top 10, but with only 18,353 thumbs up. He didn’t even have to take out a pay day loans and buy his way on the list.
Zuckerberg is awarded Time Person of the Year 2010
Saying Mark Zuckerberg should not have won the Time Person of the Year 2010 mantle is ridiculous. Facebook changed the world. The World Wide Web will never be the same. Richard Stengel of the Time has his own opinion on Zuckerberg. He said Zuckerberg "enables individuals to voluntarily share information with the idea of empowering them." Zuckerberg "sees the world as filled with potential friends," which is unlike Assange who Stengel said "sees the world as filled with real and imagined enemies."
Assange vs. Zuckerberg this year
In the minds of Time’s editors, Zuckerberg’s contribution to society is more valuable than that of Assange. WikiLeaks is argued by many to be the reason why power in society may be questions. Leaders could be questioned more now as well. There’s a belligerently loud minority that think differently of Julian Assange. He is considered paranoid and dangerous by these people. From the pulpit, they scream that we’re better off not knowing what The Wizard of Oz is doing at the rear of the curtain. It’s an old argument that fails to hold water for those who care about freedom.
Gaga, Beck, miners and unemployed beating him
Lady Gaga, Glenn Beck, the Chilean miners and unemployed Americans also received more Time Person of the Year 2010 audience votes than Mark Zuckerberg. Obviously awarding Julian Assange runner up showed the Time ignored its readers. Even though Afghan President Hamid Karzai openly admits to being a corrupt politician, he was runner up too.
Mark Zuckerberg has empowered us with the status update. The world beyond Farmville was questioned with Julian Assange. Is Moment put under government pressure with its choice or is Zuckerberg really worth it?
Articles cited
Huffington Press
huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/15/time-person-of-the-year-2010-mark-zuckerberg_n_796907.html
Time
time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037181,00.html
Julian Assange on why the world needs WikiLeaks
youtube.com/watch?v=bVGqE726OAo
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