Every year Time awards a Person of the Year and smacks his or her mug on the cover of their magazine. Since 1927 it's been mostly a sausage fest consisting of various political figures, with the rare bone thrown at females (with Queen Elizabeth II being the last singular female crowned way back in 1952), inanimate objects (the computer in 1982), and giant groupings of people ("you" in 2006). The 2010 pick has been announced today. Ladies and gentlemen, the Time Magazine Person of 2010 is...Mark Zuckerberg? Really?

Other than the fact that this pick seems 3-4 years too late (what's next year's winner going to be, the Transformers movie?), a lot of folks are irate because Time offered an online poll asking who should be crowned the Person of the Year and WikiLeaks figurehead Julian Assange received the majority of the votes yet didn't win the title. To many, this is as infuriating as Hosea beating Stefan in season 5 of Top Chef, or Gretchen and her stupid hippie clothes beating Mondo's colorful garbs in the most recent season of Project Runway.

Time's reason for picking Zuckerberg? "For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; for changing how we all live our lives, and because we finally got around to seeing The Social Network and thought it was pretty good." (Okay, I threw in that last part.) Facebook's been huge for a while now, so it seems odd to just now give accolades to Zuckerberg. Maybe they were waiting for him to make his sixth billion dollars before rewarding him with a magazine cover.

As for the runner ups, the list includes the Tea Party ass-clowns, President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, the Chilean miners (just edging out baby Jessica, because apparently all you have to do to get considered for Person(s) of the Year is get stuck underground for a while), and Julian Assange. Many felt that Assange should have won because of how WikiLeaks strives for better government accountability by posting documents that bring a magnifying glass to both US and global politics.

What do you think, is Zuckerberg a sound choice for the 2010 Person of the Year, or was Assange robbed? You could argue that one has left more of an impact on the average person's life while the other is trying to impact America as a whole, but in the end, who deserved the crown more?

Who deserved to be Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2010?