You (Time Person of the Year)

Cover of the December 25, 2006 issue. Gray area is a reflective mirror surface.

"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.

  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.
  2. ^ a b c d "Time Magazine's 10 most controversial People of the Year". Daily News. New York. December 10, 2014.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference machine was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference graham was invoked but never defined (see the help page).