Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg was picked by Time magazine as its annual person of the year ,he is one of the richest people in the US and Time chose him for having the most influence on events in 2010.
A movie called The Social Network was modeled after him charting the the manner Facebook took off and became what it is today. While a student at Harvard University Mr. Zuckerberg co founded Facebook which today has more than 500 million users worldwide and he employs more than 1,700 people. He is estimated to be worth $6.9 bn and earlier this month he became one of the latest billionaires to pledge to give away the majority of his wealth to support a group founded by Bill Gates and his wife along with Warren Buffett who publicly promise to donate to charity.
Mr. Zuckerberg said in a statement ,”The Time Award was a real honor and recognition of how our little team is building something that hundreds of millions of people want to use to make the world more open and connected and I’m happy to be a part of that.”Social networking is transforming the way we live our lives, Time’s editor , Richard Stengel said .
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