EDITOR RICK STENGEL ON TIME'S PERSON OF THE YEAR
"For connecting more than half-a-billion people and mapping the social relations among them (something that has never been done before); for creating a new system of exchanging information that has become both indispensable and sometimes a little scary; and finally, for changing how we all live our lives in ways that are innovative and even optimistic, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME's 2010 Person of the Year. Time also gushes that a billion pieces of content are posted on Facebook a day and it is closing on 600 million users."
ZUCKERBERG TELLS TIME:
On the power of Facebook: "We have this concept of serendipity—humans do. A lucky coincidence. It's like you go to a restaurant and you bump into a friend that you haven't seen for a while. That's awesome.
