Mark Zukerberg be A Man of The Year in 2010

Mark Zukerberg

Founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has been named as "Person of the Year" for 2010 by TIME magazine. Zuckerberg is now joining the ranks of winners that includes heads of state and rock stars as the most influential people last year. 

At the age of 26 years, Zuckerberg became the youngest figure "Person of the Year" after Charles Lindbergh, who was elected in 1927, at the age of 25 years. Time says, Zuckerberg age beat Queen Queen Elizabeth II, who was 26 years old for two weeks, when the queen of England was elected in 1952. 

A coincidence, Queen Elizabeth II recently joined the social networking giant that made Zuckerberg.

"Person of the Year" Time magazine this is the person or thing that has the effect of culture and news during this year, good or bad. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke received the honor last year. Winners in 2008 and is President-elect Barack Obama. Winner in 2007 was Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin. Before-previous winners include Bono, President George W. Bush and the CEO and founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos. 

Related awards obtained by Zuckerberg, Time says, he "changed the way we live our lives".

In a posting on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg said that the "Person of the Year" Time is "a real honor and recognition of how a small team we are building something that hundreds of millions of people who want to use it to make the world more open and connected each other I'm happy to be part of it ... ".

Zuckerberg has established itself not only as one of the youngest billionaire in the world, but also as a newcomer to the world's most prominent philanthropists. 

Earlier this year, he pledged $ 100 million over five years to pay for school Newark, NJ. Now, the giant media company Carl Icahn, Barry Diller, and others joined with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett to increase their charitable donations. Zuckerberg has about a quarter of the stock upward. 

Zuckerberg has built an international phenomenon by establishing a new world where people can network outside what was once unthinkable. "I tried to make the world a more open," said Zuckerberg.

Facebook was created in a boarding room Zuckerberg while studying at Harvard, and within six years grew so large with more than 500 million users around the world and billions of dollars. 

Facebook is the subject of director David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin scenario in the movie "The Social Network." It is a dark picture Zuckerberg in bringing the company and its status as one of America's most influential figure. 

This film has been selected as the best this year by the New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and National Council Review. On Tuesday, it received six Golden Globe nominations, including best picture, best drama, and so forth. This film will face his main rival, who picked up the story of the British monarchy "The King's Speech," which led with seven nominations.