Person of the Year 2010

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

1. Steven Slater

By Belinda Luscombe Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010

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Fifteen-minute fame is not like the regular kind. It can't be scripted or organized or harnessed. The celebrities it creates are sticks in a stream, suddenly aswirl in a dizzying current. When JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater was hit on the head by a passenger's bag in August and had what he describes as the "hissy fit heard around the world," ending in a dramatic exit via an emergency chute, he was not expecting to become a folk hero to overworked, stressed-out employees everywhere. While he enjoyed some aspects of the limelight, he says, "I've never felt more alone in my life than I did at the height of public scrutiny."

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