Person of the Year 2010

Martin Schoeller for TIME

Mark Zuckerberg

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 live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME's 2010 Person of the Year More »

Essays

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook are changing how we interact — and what we know about each other More »
To Our Readers

From Chile's 33 miracle miners to the man behind the world's social network, we bring you the most compelling people of 2010 More »
Photos: Mark Zuckerberg — Person of the Year

A portfolio of portraits by Martin Schoeller More »
Photos: A Zuckerberg Family Album

The Facebook founder shares a few of his family snapshots with TIME More »
Photos: Around the World with Facebook

TIME sends photographers to four of the networking site's overseas offices More »
Inside a Facebook Server Farm

TIME gets a tour of the site's Santa Clara, Calif., data center More »
Photos: Life Inside Facebook's Headquarters

Cubicle culture in the social-networking site's Silicon Valley offices More »
Video: An Interview with Mark Zuckerberg

TIME managing editor Richard Stengel sits down with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg at his company's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. More »
Video: Working at Facebook: A Day with the Profile Team

Engineers and designers fine-tune the new profile page at Facebook More »
Runner-Up: The Tea Party

The grass-roots uprising that restored the GOP was fueled by anger at the ruling Democrats. But it won't be easy to hold together More »
Runner-Up: Julian Assange

Whistle-blower or spy? His belief in the virtues of radical transparency has turned the diplomatic world upside down More »
Runner-Up: Hamid Karzai

In 2010 the feckless Afghan President came to symbolize a growing frustration with the long war in his country More »
Runner-Up: The Chilean Miners

Trapped 2,300 ft. below the earth's surface for almost three months, these 33 men defied the odds and inspired the world More »
Photos: Inside the Mine with Edison Peña

Trapped underground, Chilean miner Edison Peña ran several miles a day, pined for his girlfriend — and took photographs More »
Photos: The Chilean Miners

Trapped 2,300 ft. below the earth's surface for almost three months, these 33 men defied the odds and inspired the world. Here they are in the order in which they emerged from the mine More »
People Who Mattered

TIME surveys the key figures, from politics and sports to entertainment and religion, who shaped our world over the past year More »
Fond Farewells

Remembering those who left us in 2010: Bill Clinton on Robert Byrd, Warren Beatty on Arthur Penn, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on John Wooden More »
15 Minutes of Fame

This eclectic group of 15 had a stopover in the spotlight in 2010. Let's take a moment to remember their all-too-brief visits More »
LIFE.com: Person of the Year — Through the Years

A photographic survey of all 84 POYs, plus photo retrospectives of Julian Assange, Sarah Palin, Lady Gaga and Today's Most Important Geeks More »
Video: Bringing a Tea Party to Life

A look at the creation of TIME's epic photo-illustration, which remakes a historic Tea Party with modern political figures More »
Video: Photographing the Chilean Miners

In order to capture images of all 33 Chilean miners, TIME photographers traveled hundreds of miles over several days More »
Video: Can $100 Million Save Newark's Public Schools?

Young philanthropist and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a sizable challenge grant to Newark, N.J., schools, and now Mayor Cory Booker must determine how best to spend it More »
Video: One Minute on Facebook

Every minute, millions of actions take place on Facebook. Here are some notable numbers More »
Video: The History of Social Networking

Looking at everything from cavemen to the ancient nerds of yore to Facebook, Odd Todd takes you on a journey through the history of social networking More »
Graphic: TIME's Person of the Year 1927-2009

TIME's Person of the Year is bestowed by the editors on the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year. See who made the grade over TIME's first eight decades More »