The Connector: How Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg rewired our world and changed the way we live: A short biography of TIME's 2010 Person of the Year

eWeek recently said this about Time Magazine's bestowing its "Person of the Year" honor to Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg:

Now that Mark Zuckerberg has been given the rare honor of being named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, perhaps it’s time to reflect on how this young man moved from creating a Website to help college students connect to building Facebook into a global social and cultural phenomenon. According to some analysts, Zuckerberg’s Facebook is accessed by one-tenth of the human population, a number that’s sure to grow. This is a signal achievement in human as well as computing history. But in addition to its influence on the lives of all those users, Facebook has insinuated itself into virtually every part of life and commerce. A quick look at Google News shows a range of separate stories about Facebook, from its integration with Bing to it use of facial recognition to tag photos. There are stories about the Time magazine story, of course, and about 1,500 other stories on this event.

'The Social Network': Facebook, Zuckerberg, and the Elites from Politics Daily by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa

NEW YORK -- By the time I got around to going to "The Social Network," four days after its $25-million nationwide opening, I'd read half a dozen blockbuster reviews and columns dissecting the film and its portrayal of Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. It was impossible to go to the movie with a fresh eye and an open mind. What if I didn't like it? Well, I did. It's terrific. So let me dispatch quickly with all the issues surrounding the film that the critics (who adore the movie) and the social pundits have probed, held up for inspection, and looked at from all sides now. David Carr suggested in his column in The New York Times on Monday that there might be a generational split in moviegoers' response to the Zuckerberg character, a real-life boy genius tagged as the youngest billionaire in the world. He's 26. The young generation will cheer Zuckerberg, his duplicity and betrayals while grabbing a chance and running with it all the way to world domination. The older generation will see the movie as a story of an insensitive young man who betrays friends and partners and values for the sake of fame and money.

Read the full review here. See also: The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, Authoritas: One Student's Harvard Admissions and the Founding of the Facebook Era