Mark Zuckerberg: Time’s person of the year – Mark Zuckerberg; newly budded philanthropist Mark Zuckerberg, The Social Network – a film based on facebook founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
“I’m trying to make this world a more open place” as line read through the face book account of ‘the person of the year’ (as TIMES says) – Mark Zuckerberg.
Mark Zuckerberg is just 26 but holds the nerve of social network, is the youngest CEO (probably when he started 7 years back) of FACEBOOK – a social networking group.
Born in a dorm room of Zuckerberg at Harvard, thefacebook.com is now a hub for 500 million users around the world with a dollar worth in the billions.
Addressing the Facebook users and viewers on his view on the honor ‘the person of the year’, Zuckerberg posted a header on his FB account stating that ‘it is a real honor and recognition of how our little team is building something that hundreds of millions of people want to use to make the world more open and connected’.
Zuckerberg, not only famous for his entrepreneurial activities but also a newly budded philanthropist; he has contributed $100 million in the past five years to schooling system N.J, Newark.
Times’ person of the year
Times’ the publication, through one of its initiative of finding out most influential persons, every year announces the winner of people’s choice in influencing the world at large as ‘Times’ person of the year’.
The publication in its quest to showcase most influential events or persons of the year, organizes ratings and analysis to bring forth the most influential events of good or ill.
Likewise, adding to its past record (of Times’ person of the year: 2009 – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; 2008 – President elect Barack Obama; 2007 – Vladimir Putin), this year too, the publication has celebrated the most influential event of the year – Time’s Person of the Year – Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg is the second youngest to whom the honor is accredited to while the first one was for Charles Lindbergh in 1927.
By Natalie Brown,
www.mjbnewsonline.com
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