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It was close. The person of the year in my opinion was between Mark Zuckerberg creator of Facebook, Julian Assange creator of Wikileak and Steve Jobs co-creator of Apple. On one hand a lot of people (if not the whole world) has become aware of government secrets, tactics and strategy with the help of Julian Assange. A lot of people now have Ipods, Ipad and Iphones with the help of Steve Jobs. On the other hand lonliness, connection and reconnections have been made with the help of Mark Zuckerberg. Oh yes, it was close!

As close as it was, the person of the year has to go to Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook has allowed people to participate and reconnect with old friends and family. Wikileak, as brillant of a job its doing to bring awareness, allows no public participation or influence. Although there is customer’s participation in apple’s productions, it still uses facebook functions and applications to largely build connection with users of the I-machines. Mark Zuckerberg has allowed 2 Billion out of 6.9 billion people in the world to feel a since of belonging through active and for many, meaningful associations. Many relationships and invitations has taken place with the help of facebook.

It’s a funny comparison because one of facebook’s biggest flaw is privacy but Wikileak’s greatest attribute is exposing privacy content. One of apple’s biggest flaw is said that products fail to be user friendly, which is improving. Wikileak and facebook do not have this problem. Nevertheless, it means a lot more to people if they can have control of the information and access to whatever they want. This is proven by 700 000 people joining facebook every day.

Julian Assange creator of Wikileak

Steve Jobs co-creator and now owner of apples

Let’s take a look at the man and the success of the facebook:

—-5’8 and 26 years old at the time of this writing.
—- Has three sisters.
—- At 12 years old he created a network for the family home called Zucknet; this was at a time when networks didn’t come in a box. He also wrote computer games.
—- He once rigged one of his sister’s computer to announce that it was going to self destruct. The computer even did the count down, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. It was done to fulfill a bet he made with his elder sister.
—- He took interest and started studying ancient languages and fensing in High school (secondary school).
—- Was offered around a million dollars at a young age for co-writing with a classmate a music recommendation program called Synapse by Microsoft and AOL. But he refused it to continue Harvard.
—- Was offered a billion dollar by google to take facebook off his hands. He declined.
—- He put $100 million of his personal facebook equity to help Newark school system (He isn’t from Newark but highly believes in education).
—- Before facebook, he had projects like ‘The facebook’ (the ‘The’ part later went) and Facemash.
—- Started facebook as a way for people on college campuses to communicate with and keep track of one another.
—- He is red-green colour blind: there are a lot of colours he can’t see, but he sees blue. Facebook is the colour blue.
—- Roomates on campus at Harvard were Dustin Moskovitz and Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster.

Dustin Moskovitz

Sean Parker

—- Has a girlfriend, Priscilla Chan. They live together.
—- Was estimated by Forbes to be $6.9 billion, putting him ahead of his neighbour Steve Jobs (creator of apple).
—- If Facebook was a country it would be the third largest behind China and India.
—- Zuckerberg is a billionaire six times over.
—- 70% of Facebook users live outside US.
—- 81% of American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers has an increase in divorce cases involving social networking; 66% cite facebook as the primary source for online divorce evidence.
—- His biggest motto, “Eliminating desire for all that doesn’t really matter.”

Brotherhood of the Game, salutes you.