Time's Person of the Year is Mark Zuckerberg: Yeah Right

Yesterday Time Magazine named their Person of the Year for 2010. Rather surprisingly, the nod went to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. There were 25 nominees for the prestigious title, including notable nominees Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, Lady Gaga and the Chilean miners. Zuck was chosen because, as a Time editor explained “for connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives.”As much as I sympathise with what he had to go through in the beginning with the numerous privacy fiascos and countless product releases, and I'll give him kudos for his philanthropy work, he is not the man for this designation. When you hear of someone being nominated for the Nobel Prize or Time's Person of the Year, you think of individual brilliance: one person, who through thick and thin has fought for what he or she believes in for the good of humanity. The Facebook CEO is yet to scale such heights of humanity.The Chilean miners, Lady Gaga and Julian Assange could have easily taken the title of person of the year. We all saw the miracle fight for survival by the Chilean miners, Lady Gaga doing her bit to change the music industry and turn heads, and lastly Mr WikiLeaks himself, Julian Assange. Whether you like him or not, he has helped raise a hidden and now very public community in fighting back against those who hide information from the world. In a short period of time, WikiLeaks has achieved what the big media companies took 30 years to do.What do you guys think? Did Zuckerberg deserve this recognition? Or are the other nominees like Lady Gaga, The Chilean Miners or Julian Assange more deserving of this accolade?