Posted on 12/15/2010 5:16:36 AM PST by Enchante
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, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME's 2010 Person of the Year.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
but Sarah Palin and/or the Tea Party would have been a better choice for dramatic influence upon 2010 US public affairs
What’s Facebook? It sounds like a stalker site.
Good choice here. At least it made sense.
Who is Mark Zuckerberg?
Facebook has reconnected me with a lot old friends and helps me keep up with family in other states.
“Facebook has reconnected me with a lot old friends and helps me keep up with family in other states.”
Yep, me too. And therein is the problem.
Uh oh, sounds like you’re going to have to block a few people! LOL
Uh oh, sounds like you’re going to have to block a few people! LOL
If he is anything like the way he was portrayed in the movie about Facebook, he needs to have the crap kicked out of him for being a major league A$$.
Agreed. Like it or not, Facebook has changed the way people interact.
Younger people don’t exchange phone numbers anymore, they say “Facebook me.”
I can keep tabs on friends and family I would ordinarily talk to once a year (or less) by what they post on their Facebook wall.
Some curmudgeons may call this entirely voluntary system (by both parties) “stalking.” Others recognize its impact in modern culture - as Time Magazine rightfully has.
He isn't. What, Hollywood lie to make a dramatic storyline? Say it ain't so!
That being said, recognizing it for a (mostly) true story, it was a great movie.
That’s what I did. Nothing wrong with blocking some people you don’t like.
No doubt. Wife and I enjoyed the movie, but that character reminded me of the kind of guy that I want to slap silly.
Of course now we have people so addicted to Facebook that I swear that they snort the letters right off the screen.
THAT is when you know your product is successful!
Facebook has led to several discoveries:
1) All the ‘hot’ girls from high school got real Fat
2) One of my cousins came roaring out of the closet
3) One of my siblings is a closet democrat voter.
4) Another sibling claims to be conservative yet draws EVERY welfare program available in NY State
5) My ‘stuck in the 60’ hippy, new age uncle is actually a hard core GOP voter.
6) Many friends of friends LOATHE Christianity...many of them younger folk.
7) My Prozac addicted mother is really nuts.
8) The biggest hair-bags and druggies in high school are now senior officers,NCO’s in the military(they cleaned up)
9) Former friends who can’t take the hint that there is a reason I haven’t talked to them in 20 years yet still try to friend me.
10) People who share every tidbit of information about their day probably don’t have much of a life.
Great list! Love it.
There is life without facebook.
Not surprised. It must have something to do with a certain movie called “The Social Network”.
There is life without facebook.Watching this recent episode of South Park (which BLASTED facebook) confirms your opinion. :o)
"You have 0 friends."
“...as Time Magazine rightfully has.”
Yes, when I need to know how to think, I look to Time to point me in the right direction. How can a bunch of lefty journalists with no real world experience steer me wrong?
If you think Hollywood gives voice to incompetent weirdos, Facebook gives a planetary megaphone to absolute doorknobs.
That and twitter. And the other one...MySpace (which is apparently dying, hooray!)
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