So, Facebook’s Zuckerberg is Time’s Person of the Year

Here’s the bit on privacy:

“When it comes to privacy, it’s entirely possible that Zuckerberg will turn out not to be wrong, just prescient. Social norms change. People hated Facebook’s News Feed when it was introduced in 2006. They thought it was creepy and intrusive. Zuckerberg stood his ground, and now Facebook is unimaginable without it. He moved the chains, and we went with him, setting up our defense that much farther toward the end zone. “The world is changing,” Cox says. “When caller ID came out, people went psycho. You know, because, Oh my God, now people are going to know I’m calling them! This is terrible! I’m going to end up being tracked, and Big Brother and Orwell and all that! The reality is now you won’t pick up a call unless you know who’s calling you.”

Read the full article: Mark Zuckerberg - Person of the Year 2010 - TIME

Interesting conspiracy-theory footnote: Seems like Wikileaks honcho Julian Assange was actually voted as person of the year, and Time swung the vote in favour of Zuckerberg. I wonder how true that is?