TIME Names Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg The 2010 TIME Person of the Year

TIME names Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg the 2010 TIME Person of the Year. Editor Rick Stengel on Mark Zuckerberg: "For connecting more than half-a-billion people and mapping the social relations among them (something that has never been done before); for creating a new system of exchanging information that has become both indispensable and sometimes a little scary; and finally, for changing how we all live our lives in ways that are innovative and even optimistic, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME's 2010 Person of the Year."