8:17am

Wed December 15, 2010
The Two-Way

Facebook's Zuckerberg Is 'Time' Magazine's Person Of The Year; Good Choice?

"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," Facebook founder Mark Zukerberg is Time's 2010 "Person of the Year," the magazine just announced.

The runners-up:

-- The Tea Party movement.

-- Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

-- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

-- The Chilean miners who survived two months deep underground.

Working off of Time's list, we wonder what everybody thinks (if you have other nominees, speak up in the comments thread):

Update at 3:45 p.m. ET: The Picture Show has a look back at some of Time's past honorees, including Charles Lindbergh, Adolf Hitler and Martin Luther King Jr. Copyright 2011 National Public Radio. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.