Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been named 2010 person of the year by Time magazine.The billionaire is the second youngest person to be named person of the year behind
1927’s winner, Charles Lindbergh who was 25 at the time of winning the title. The third youngest person ever is Queen Elizabeth II of England. She was also 26 at that time but was 2wks older than Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook and its founder are the subject of movie director David Fincher and screen writer Aaron Sorkir’s film the social network which has been selected as the best movie of the year by the New York film critics circle, the Los Angeles film critics association and the national board of review. The movie also received six nominations in the 2011 Golden Globes.
The site initially started in Mark’s Harvard room as thefacebook .It was supposed to be an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges but it has since evolved into a global phenomenon now known simply as “Facebook” with membership of about 550 million people. With this number of members, If it had been a country, it would be the third largest country behind China and India.
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