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Mark Zuckerberg has beaten out an assortment of trapped miners, a group of bitter voters and a shady Internet activist for the title of Time’s Person of the Year.

Handed out since 1927, this honor is described by the magazine as the individual who “has done the most to change the news, for better or worse.” Past recipients have ranged from Adolf Hitler to The Computer to Bill Clinton.

Did Mark Zuckerberg have a greater societal impact  this year than Kim Kardashian? Discuss now!

Writes Time in its profile: “In less than seven years, Mark Zuckerberg wired together a twelfth of humanity in a single network… It’s a permanent fact of our global social reality. We have entered the Facebook age, and Mark Zuckerberg is the man who brought us here.”

Runners-up in 2010 included the Tea Party, Julian Assange, Hamid Karzai and the Chilean Miners. Think this publication made the right choice?