Mark Zuckerberg emerges TIME Person of Year 2010

Facebook honcho Mark Zuckerberg has emerged Time Magazine's Person of the year in a rather controversial twist. It was reported that the public had overwhelmingly voted for Wikileaks headman, Julian Assange for the win but depressingly, TIME took the safe option, opting for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, instead. According to the magazine,  "In less than seven years, Zuckerberg wired together a twelfth of humanity into a single network, thereby creating a social entity almost twice as large as the U.S. If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest. ... It has turned into ... something that has changed the way human beings relate to one another on a species-wide scale. ... Facebook has merged with the social fabric of ... human life. ... It's a permanent fact of our global social reality"