Facebook's Zuckerberg beats Apple's Steve Jobs as Time Person of the Year - Page 2

The "award" to simply intended to recognize the most newsworthy person of the year. They often pick a person who represents a concept. In this case Zuck is the placeholder for Facebook, as Jobs would be a placeholder for Apple. Apple was in the news a lot, but I suspect Facebook was more. I'm a bit surprised they didn't pick Palen or another representative of the tea party movement, but that probably would have upset their readers too much.

As long as ASSange didn't make the cover, I'm happy.

TIME has become People Magazine

No doubt. Kept thinking of cat's eyes like MJ in thriller. Creepy.

btw, what's the point in having a vote, if you decide to over-ride it for the result? TIME is a dinosaur that just doesn't know it's extinct yet.

It's a sad commentary when "person of the year" award results from creating a social network for gossip, trivia, and silly banter.

My friend found his long lost brother from the vietnam war times on facebook, they were sepereated and he came to Australia.

Steve Jobs is connecting people over wifi, facetime doesn't work on 3g.

As usual, The Onion is dead on.

"Zuckerberg has done more than Jobs this year...". Wow, that's really off the "Mark".

Well, Zuckerberg should be given credit where actually due. You don't get to his position by sheer luck.

Steve Jobs is taken for granted by some as they have come to expect nothing less than New Gadgets, Great Technology and the Best of all worlds
However Mark Zuckerberg deserves credit for his achievement as it is note worthy.

those of us that own Apple products realize that Steve Jobs is a man whose dedication is creating technology of the future.

They do sell ads, lots of them.


I heard that Jobs already "has" a movie: Pirates of Silicon Valley. It's said to not be completely accurate, but the filmmakers took lot more liberties with The Social Network too.

Jobs has created billions of dollars of profit for Apple.
Zuckerberg has caused people to waste millions of hours on Facebook.

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You're right that it's meant to spotlight a newsworthy person. But you really mean to say that naming Sarah Palin would have upset readers more than Adolph Hitler? IDTS

Well Steve Jobs tried to imitate Zuckerberg by creating a lame ass Ping and look where it got him.
No surprise here.

So Person of the Year to the guy who has reduced productivity by several orders of magnitude, increased security and privacy issues for millions (hundreds of millions), and can't answer questions without sweating.

Nice job Time.

No- the maker of the iPad did not win.

He's an average looking guy. Did you expect James Bond?

Not bad for a guy who runs a glorified chatroom

hmmm stumbled really? If he 'stumbled' into it then you suggest it is no achievement. He is the youngest billionaire in history and has built the most visited website in history and all with a tiny team in comparison.

Bit more than stumbling...

Sure Jobs is great but Zuckerberg had more vision.

One idea catching on big is rare in itself. Have you got an idea that will attract half a billion customers in as much time and be a part of an evolution in networking? I think for the US alone there's nothing wrong with him qualifying for person of the year, but there are other people more deserving than Steve Jobs or Zuckers.

p.s. He looks like a reptilian in that photo.


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Wow, you sound really cool. Don't tell me - you "know stuff" that you can't possibly tell us. Ooooh, mysterious.


Zuckerberg got lucky, like most other internet entrepreneurs. Creating a website to allow people pimp their egos 24/7 doesn't take an awful lot of skill, and it's still not clear that Zuckerberg actually did it on his own anyway. It's certainly not an original idea - hey, that's kind of like the ideas you accuse Jobs of stealing, isn't it?


This fanboi blogging site seems important enough for you to come in and explain The Truth to all of us clueless readers.

Yes, the Person of the Year distinction is not necessarily an accolade. It's the 'person' (the meaning of which has been stretched in recent years) who, over the past year, has affected the lives of the most people for good or ill.

Actually, "sheer luck" is exactly how you get to his position.

Did anybody read the article (sorry forgotten the link, maybe will come back to me soon) that Facebook has been the catalyst in 100,000 crimes, some serious, such as murder ?
If this is a proven, then how can he possibly be named TPOY ?
I am proud I am not a member of s%^tbook, and never intend to be, but I do read newspaper articles here in Australia where people are bullied there, some commit suicide because of this, and some sick individuals deface tribute pages with pornographic images.
All I am saying, and its too obvious, is that s&%tbook is the vehicle that allows certain mentally sick and criminally minded to perpetrate their crimes, is a perfect "bullet" for targeting people who may be subjected to all sorts of bulling. Many divorces are a result of it, now most likely these people would divorce anyway, but who knows whether they actually would if such a place did not exist.

I would strongly recommend that people who are members to leave it, as it is used for vetting job applicants, even a bank in Australia used it to lure people who had outstanding debts, as a means of tracking them down. Government agencies and police authorities also access it on a continuous basis.

Remember folks how we said NO to national ID cards, well the Government has something even better and much more powerful, its called Facebook. They can track you without your knowledge and tie in certain attributes found there with their myriad of databases. Its very easy to do.
I'm a programmer, and we tie in our systems to 3rd party vendors over Web links by way of FTP.
Can't see why others won't also do this.

What is happening is that we are being bombarded with far too much information, we just cannot absorb it all, perhaps only a fraction, because of this, we are always compromising (emails are a perfect example). Instead of stopping and taking stock of the solution, we make things worse by being part of the problem of feeding more information into the "cyber machine". We don't take care with this data, and it can never truly removed, don't listen to those that purport the opposite view.
I just don't understand why people do this to themselves.

So FUCKERBERG, go to hell.

You're confusing luck with vision. I think you'll find the prevailing opinion here, and with many other mac users, is the relevance of the Time article. I'm not an Apple fanboi by any stretch and I don't think Steve Jobs shits golden eggs every day. But lets remember folks, it's all about selling magazines.

Couldn't have said it better

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While Facebook (or any organization) should be treated with a certain amount of distrust, but this, really? There were plenty of legitimate uses for pagers when they got the rap for being instrumental in drug deals. I'm sure telephones have been used to help commit many more crimes than that. The same goes with the internet in general. Some people use cars to drive to their destination to commit crime. I think it's silly to blame the tools based on their misuse by dark side of humanity. People will use whatever tools they have to do what they want. I doubt you'd slow down bullying or even put a dent in crime even if the site was killed.

yeah, I bet no criminal has ever used an iphone to plan a murder. c'mon now.

Come on guys. Steve job is greatest no doubt about that.
But come on zuckerberg deserves this. Facebook is the most popular social networking site.
Its really cool social networking site, as cool as apple products.
Lets not cry like sore losers over this.

Simple fact is:
For laptops, pc's, smartphone, tablet: apple is great

For social networking facebook is great

And the year after that all the little weasels whose lives are consumed in envy, recrimination and self-hatred.


Yeah, that was quite the dating profile he posted.

Achtung, baby!

"Facebook's Zuckerberg beats Apple's Steve Jobs as Time Person of the Year"

Oh, were they in some sort of sporting contest or election? Jobs got "beaten" on this? That's really rich. Jobs neither wants nor needs this sort of approbation - everyone in the known universe knows who Jobs is and what he does. I had no idea who MZ was or what he did until just recently (no, I don't read the tech press) but his "product" is hardly on a par with what Apple produces.

What a joke.

IMO SJ would be a better POY choice because from my POV Zuckerberg is a POS, just saying...

Why???? he is a leech and a creep to boot.

Mark Zuckerberg? yuck! what has he contributed to anything? stupid Facebook, and its rude users. Im so glad to be rid of that nasty site.

Just look at his "soulless" uncaring droid-like face. I hate people like him, they are EVERYWHERE.

But such a hero figure to other creepy leeches.

Those are the stated objectives. But Time violates them often enough that I suspect the pragmatic is more often at work than the principled. Thus, this distinction is probably more aptly titled "Person of the [highest probability to help us sell more magazines this] year".

Only good guys use Apple products. Jack Bauer told me so.

Do you know what the term catalyst means? If not may I suggest you find out.
I guess I do as I have a double degree in Chemistry/Biochemistry, but I must be thick because I cannot take this term and articulate it with social commentary, but you the expert, can.
Wine Troy frog to you buddy.
I guess you are a member and protecting your dumb decision to be so.
The famous Groucho Marx quote "I refuse to join a club that would have me as a member".