Mark Zuckerberg Named Time’s Person of the Year

The Facebook founder tops the list for "changing the way we all live our lives."

Zuckerberg wasn’t born when Time magazine named “the computer” its person of the year in 1982. Twenty-eight years later, the publication has named him the most important person of 2010 for using computers to revolutionize the way more than half a billion people relate to each other. Time editor Rick Stengel made the announcement on NBC’s Today show Wednesday, and said Zuckerberg beat out WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Tea Party, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and the Chilean miners rescued in October. Zuckerberg is the second-youngest person to ever be honoured by Time; Queen Elizabeth II was a month younger when she got the award in 1952, the year she was coronated.