Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg deserves to be Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year,” but Steve Jobs doesn’t? Seriously?
What did Mark Zuckerberg do this year that was so special? He was the subject of a feature film that was released in October. Apparently that’s enough to be named Time’s “Person of the Year.”
A Nobel Peace Prize must be right around the corner for Zuckerberg.
One question: Who’s done more to change the world, Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg?
All in all, though, Steve Jobs lucked out. If he was named POTY, he’d be getting the backlash instead of Zuckerberg. After all, anybody with at least half a brain can name 10+ people who “for better or for worse” have done more “to influence the events of the year” than Zuckerberg or, for that matter, Jobs.
Henry Luce must be spinning in his grave. TIME Magazine no longer has the collective balls necessary to name a Hilter POTY as they rightly did in 1938. TIME needs to change their criteria for POTY to “someone, some group, or something our vapid, shallow, cowardly editors think will sell the most units this week.”
TIME Magazine is a joke.
SteveJack is a long-time Macintosh user, web designer, multimedia producer and a regular contributor to the MacDailyNews Opinion section.
MacDailyNews Note: The final results of TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year Reader’s Poll, Top 15:
(Rank. Name – Avg. Rating, Total Votes)
1. Julian Assange – 92, 382026
2. Recep Tayyip Erdogan – 80, 233640
3. Lady Gaga – 70, 146378
4. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert – 81, 78145
5. Glenn Beck – 28, 91746
6. Barack Obama – 58, 27478
7. Steve Jobs – 61, 24810
8. The Chilean Miners – 47, 29124
9. The Unemployed American – 66, 19605
10. Mark Zuckerberg – 52, 18353
11. Liu Xiaobo – 68, 12962
12. Sarah Palin – 28, 30787
13. David Cameron – 31, 22596
14. Hu Jintao – 49, 12046
15. Robert Gates – 41, 13142
TIME Magazine, this is not just a joke, this is insulting to their readers!
But…but…how hard *is* it to make a white iPhone?! Seriously, Apple: why can’t you make a white iPhone? It’s still an iPhone, only white!
/sarcasm
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@ LordRobin
Well, Zuckerberg has done very little to change the face of the world. He’s the CEO of a social networking site that happens to be really, really popular
Hitler on the other handed could arguably be the most influential person in the 20th century. If there was no Hitler humanity on Earth would look totally different. No Zuckerberg and MySpace CEO would be Time POTY.
Can anyone make sense of why the list is ordered the way it is? It’s not based on rank or number of votes despite being labeled as a “readers poll”.
What’s this “Facebook” thing? Some of us still use USENET
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Say what you want about Zuckerburg (good or bad), but if you think about it, FB isn’t really all that much more than an updated, amended USENET – – he merely add pictures, games, a different “topic” criteria, and a revenue model to make it into a business.
Back to TIme, we need to recall that they’re “Media”, and working on an iPad App probably means that Apple was “Too Close” for them, which means that Zuckerburg has … mystique(!). Toss in a highly publicized $100M challenge grant (vs Steve’s privacy) and its a Media Darling self-licking ice cream cone extravaganza where they get to worship themselves.
In analyzing the fire sale of distressed Newsweek this year, Jame McQuivey (Forrester Research) said, “In the end, it’s unclear why so many newsweeklies are necessary. The Internet will sweep most of them away in due time.”
Thus, TIME is merely trying to identify who is replacing them, even though this is a complete misnomer: I don’t go to FB to find out the latest World, National or even Local News. Or weather.
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Time mag’s PoY has become an irrelevant joke. At least they didn’t pick Taylor Swift. Rick Stengel’s article on facebook reads like a lovesick facebook fanboi’s rantings with lips firmly attached to the ass of facebook.
They could have chosen Lady Gaga, who placed 3rd in the online poll. (WTF?)
“The Social Network” was the most inane movie I’ve taken the time to watch since “Grandma’s Boy”. Cool music. Necessary to fill in for the fact that there was nothing interesting actually happening in the screenplay. It will be forgotten soon. Too bad Fincher and Reznor were connected to such a snoozefest. Smart kid comes up with a new website, gets sued, the end.
@Grifterus – Each name in the pantheon you mention has a fascinating story. An old-time developer myself, I would recommend to the youngsters: “Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution” by Steven Levy, free from Apple iBooks.