YOU

I know that the new issue has been out for several days now, but I was listening to Net at Nite on Twit and heard them talking about Time Magazine’s person of the year.

YOU.

The show hosts, Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur were talking about YOU as a cop-out for the person of the year. Amber agues that it should be the YouTube guys. Some others argue, “Time can’t make the person of the year a construct.”

But this is not a construct. Look at the cover of the magazine to get my point. A mirror reflects back the person of the year image.

Not YOU in the sense of everyone - but YOU in the sense of the one person that YOU look at in the mirror every morning. Not a collective YOU - but a personal YOU.

YOU are the reason that YouTube, MySpace, and Wikipedia are successful and have changed the world. Without YOU the social aspect of the internet would not exist.

So - If YOU haven’t picked up a copy of the new issue of Time – go out and buy it.