Facebook the end

Facebook is all over the place; television, news programs, Oprah. Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed on 60 minutes recently, which he used to make his official announcement that Facebook was changing the appearance of its profile page. Talk about being accepted into the older generation's world of power and greed! Now Zuckerberg has been named Time Magazine's Person of the Year, making him the youngest man ever to be bestowed that honor. This puts him into the company of people like Mohandas Gandhi, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler and more recently, Barack Obama and Ben Bernancke.  That is because they are recognizing him using the criteria "for better or for worse, ...has done the most to influence the events of the year".  I'm sure that there are many that are still scratching their heads at who Mark Zuckerberg is, but when this article is published, it will introduce him to a population who has never heard of facebook, much less created a profile page of their own. This may partly be due to a generation gap, but also people who are leery of sharing too much personal information on the web. There are many others who feel that although his work has created something that has changed the way that facebook users use the computer and look at social networking, there are still millions who don't have access to clean water everyday, much less a computer to update their statuses. So how could he be Person of the Year? Because he has changed the lives of 500 million people who share their pictures and status of how many cows and beans have been planted on their imaginary farms? Because now I can find out if my 2,000 "friends" are together, broken up or just hookin' up? I don't know if the phenomenon of facebook has truly influenced the events of this year but it has certainly has an effect on most people ages 25 and under.  So since many of the future movers and shakers of the world interact with him everyday, I guess Mark Zuckerberg is the Man.