You (Time Person of the Year)

"You" was the official choice for Time's Person of the Year in 2006. The magazine set out to recognize the millions of people who anonymously contribute user-generated content to websites such as YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Wikipedia and other wikis, and the multitudes of other websites featuring user contribution.^[1]^[2]

While the status had been given before to inanimate objects, with the personal computer being the "Machine of the Year" for 1982,^[3]^[2] as well as collections of people or an abstract representative of a movement, the choice of "You" attracted criticism from commentators in publications such as The Atlantic for being too much of a pop culture gimmick.^[4]^[2] A 2014 New York Daily News article named the 2006 award as one of the ten most controversial "Person of the Year" moments in the history of Time.^[2] The news magazine experienced generally successful sales.

^ Lev Grossman (December 13, 2006). "Time's Person of the Year: You". Time. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved February 14, 2008.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Time Magazine's 10 most controversial People of the Year". Daily News. New York. December 10, 2014.
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[moty2006-1] Lev Grossman (December 13, 2006). "Time's Person of the Year: You". Time. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved February 14, 2008.

[ny-2] "Time Magazine's 10 most controversial People of the Year". Daily News. New York. December 10, 2014.

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