Mark Zuckerberg has just been elected man of 2010 by Time magazine. The 26 -year -old billionaire is thus the youngest who received this distinction since the election of the aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1927 after his crossing of the Atlantic.
He supplants President Barack Obama but also the Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange. The choice was preferentially focused on the Facebook founder because according to the magazine “Facebook put in contact for half a billion people and became the third largest country in the world”.
This announcement comes after Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to make the huge donation of $ 100 million to Newark public schools in New Jersey and its membership in “Giving Pledge”. The illustrious founder knew how to be in the right place at the right time and seize the opportunities that presented themselves to him.
Even if on a survey made on the net with readers, Julian Assange was the favorite, the Time magazine chose Mark Zuckerberg as a man of the year 2010. This choice seems judicious especially with the impact that the Social Network film which depicts the breakthrough of Mark Zuckerberg. Nevertheless, no one can match what the founder of WikiLeaks has disclosed in a month. To wonder if the pressure of the White House is not behind this choice. The reason mentioned by the magazine is “while Assange attacks governments and institutions with a view to putting them in a weak position, Zuckerberg allows people to voluntarily share information in order to make them stronger”.
