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Last year, Time magazine named Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as the Person of the Year for 2010. This year, Time magazine has decided to name a collective “person” the Person of the Year for 2011. Instead of choosing one singular person for one singular event, Time has decided that this year’s Person of the Year title should be shared by a group of people … who span the globe. From the Middle East to the marbled steps of Wall Street, the Time magazine Person of the Year was EVERYWHERE this year. Click below to find out who has been named the 2011 Time magazine Person of the Year.

Mark Zuckerberg, the former Harvard University student who created the world’s most popular social networking site Facebook, has been selected as Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2010. As we are all well aware, the founding of Facebook has been immortalized in one of the year’s best films, The Social Network (which was nominated for a Golden Globe award yesterday) … which, IMHO, took the booming website to a whole new level of public consciousness. In that context, it’s very easy to see how Time decided name Zuckerberg the 2010 Person of the Year:

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time’s “Person of the Year” for 2010, joining the ranks of winners that include heads of state and rock stars as the person the magazine believes most influenced events of the past year. At 26, Zuckerberg is the youngest “Person of the Year” since the first one chosen, Charles Lindbergh; he was 25 when he was named in 1927, Time said Wednesday. Zuckerberg beat out Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II by just two weeks: She was 26 when she was named in 1952. Incidentally, Queen Elizabeth II has recently joined Zuckerberg’s social networking behemoth. Time’s “Person of the Year” is the person or thing that has most influenced the culture and the news during the past year for good or for ill. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke received the honor last year. The 2008 winner was then-President-elect Barack Obama. The 2007 winner was Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Other previous winners have included Bono, President George W. Bush, and Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos. In naming Zuckerberg, Time cited him “for changing how we all live our lives.”

It is really mind-boggling to think about how much Mark Zuckerberg has effected the way we interact in the Internet age. Millions and millions of people exchange personal information with one another every second of every day on Facebook. It is the single most popular website in the world … and it all started as a lark on one fated booze-infused night at Harvard University. It’s just … insane. After the jump, check out a few photos of Zuckerberg from this Person of the Year issue of Time and read more about how he was selected and what he thinks of the honor …

Time magazine has announced their choice for Person of the Year which, this year, should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone at all. Annually the news magazine profiles a man, woman, couple, group, idea, etc. that “for better or for worse, … has done the most to influence the events of the year” and this year has selected President-elect Barack Obamaamong all of this year’s candidates as THE single person that has had the most influence. Here is the new cover of Time magazine with President-elect Obama on the cover and a portion of the issue coverstory:

It’s unlikely that you were surprised to see Obama’s face on the cover. He has come to dominate the public sphere so completely that it beggars belief to recall that half the people in America had never heard of him two years ago — that even his campaign manager, at the outset, wasn’t sure Obama had what it would take to win the election. He hit the American scene like a thunderclap, upended our politics, shattered decades of conventional wisdom and overcame centuries of the social pecking order. Understandably, you may be thinking Obama is on the cover for these big and flashy reasons: for ushering the country across a momentous symbolic line, for infusing our democracy with a new intensity of participation, for showing the world and ourselves that our most cherished myth — the one about boundless opportunity — has plenty of juice left in it. But crisis has a way of ushering even great events into the past. As Obama has moved with unprecedented speed to build an Administration that would bolster the confidence of a shaken world, his flash and dazzle have faded into the background. In the waning days of his extraordinary year and on the cusp of his presidency, what now seems most salient about Obama is the opposite of flashy, the antithesis of rhetoric: he gets things done. He is a man about his business — a Mr. Fix It going to Washington. That’s why he’s here and why he doesn’t care about the furniture. We’ve heard fine speechmakers before and read compelling personal narratives. We’ve observed candidates who somehow latch on to just the right issue at just the right moment. Obama was all these when he started his campaign: a talented speaker who had opposed the Iraq war and lived a biography that was all things to all people. But while events undermined those pillars of his candidacy, making Iraq seem less urgent and biography less relevant, Obama has kept on rising. He possesses a rare ability to read the imperatives and possibilities of each new moment and organize himself and others to anticipate change and translate it into opportunity. The real story of Obama’s year is the steady march of seemingly impossible accomplishments: beating the Clinton machine, organizing previously marginal voters, harnessing the new technologies of democratic engagement, shattering fundraising records, turning previously red states blue — and then waking up the day after his victory to reinvent the presidential-transition process in the face of a potentially dangerous vacuum of leadership. “We always did our best up on the high wire,” says his campaign manager, David Plouffe. Obama’s competence fills him with a genuine self-confidence. “I’ve got a pretty healthy ego,” he allows. That’s clear when he offers a checklist for voters to use in judging his performance two years from now. It’s quite an agenda. Listen: “Have we helped this economy recover from what is the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression? Have we instituted financial regulations and rules of the road that assure this kind of crisis doesn’t occur again? Have we created jobs that pay well and allow families to support themselves? Have we made significant progress on reducing the cost of health care and expanding coverage? Have we begun what will probably be a decade-long project to shift America to a new energy economy? Have we begun what may be an even longer project of revitalizing our public-school systems?” There’s more: “Have we closed down Guantánamo in a responsible way, put a clear end to torture and restored a balance between the demands of our security and our Constitution? Have we rebuilt alliances around the world effectively? Have I drawn down U.S. troops out of Iraq, and have we strengthened our approach in Afghanistan — not just militarily but also diplomatically and in terms of development? And have we been able to reinvigorate international institutions to deal with transnational threats, like climate change, that we can’t solve on our own?” And: “Outside of specific policy measures, two years from now, I want the American people to be able to say, ‘Government’s not perfect; there are some things Obama does that get on my nerves. But you know what? I feel like the government’s working for me. I feel like it’s accountable. I feel like it’s transparent. I feel that I am well informed about what government actions are being taken. I feel that this is a President and an Administration that admits when it makes mistakes and adapts itself to new information.’” Can he really achieve all that? Plenty of voters will be happy if he aces only Item 1 on his list. But the essence of both Obama’s strength and his promise is that, according to a recent poll, a strong majority of Americans believe he will accomplish most of what he aims to do. For having the confidence to sketch that kind of future in this gloomy hour and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful that he will pull it off, Barack Obama is Time’s Person of the Year for 2008.

Clearly, this decision has to be Time magazine’s easiest to make, like, ever. Obama changed the landscape of politics in our nation’s history and has managed to essentially unite the country by using Hope as the glue that he believes can keep us all together while his newly elected administration tries to go about doing the work of righting the wrongs that have been set in place by the current Bush administration and set our country’s path on a new, more positive direction. It’s a tall order, one that may not be even close to 100% successful … but I suppose the same was said when we learned that an African American man was running for the highest office in the land and the most powerful position in the world. Click HERE to read Time magazine’s most excellent interview with Obama and be reminded (as if any of us need reminding so soon after the election) why he has been elected as the 44th President of the United States of America.

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