Facebook CEO/founder Mark Zuckerberg appears on the cover of the latest issue of Time Magazine as the 2010 Person of The Year. The popular social networking site has more than 500 million users and made its founder a millionaire at the tender age of 23.

The now 26 year-old was chosen for his ability to create a tool that connects “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.”

“The craziest thing to me in all this,” Mark says, “is that I remember having these conversations with my friends when I was in college. We would just sort of take it as an assumption that the world would get to the state where it is now,” he explained to TIME. “But, we figured, we’re just college kids. Why were we the people who were most qualified to do that? I mean, that’s crazy!”

“I guess what it probably turns out is, other people didn’t care as much as we did.”

Mark is now included in the short list of notorious men, which include former President of the US, Bill Clinton, and Prez Barack Obama. Congrats to Mark and Facebook!

[image: Time]