The most influential/important person in the world?

[onfire]

World leaders come and go, celebrities come and go. Different politicians and religious leaders will always have a place. But to truly have influence you need to change the way people live their lives.

My pick goes to Mark Zuckerberg.

The social media revolution, Facebook has changed Generation Y. From using social networking at home & on your phone, it even allowed for the evolution of Twitter and the re-enforcement a lot of what was established with youtube and alike, or at least gave a vehicle for these medians to became a lot more common place.

Outside of tweens, teenagers & 20-somethings updating their status daily, it's changed marketing and broadcasting. Watch any show today, and they'll ask you to " join the conversation on Facebook / Twitter "

Like Print & Radio coming before television, other social media / networks came before Facebook. Yet the ease, connectivity and simplicity made it successful. Like television to the baby boomer generation, social networking will be to Generation Y and beyond.

Only within 10-15 years people will truly understand how much Zuckerberg changed their lives. It sounds corny. But just think back to a World prior to Facebook.

[Gobes32]

Originally Posted by ltd

No offence, but if you've been to the USA in the last 12 months you'll know that Barack Obama would be near the bottom of that list. He's about as popular as our PM here.

I only suggested he was the most important because he holds the keys to the most powerful (?) defence force in the world. America have almost become the world police, as sickening as that is.

[TheSneakiness]

Originally Posted by onfire

Outside of tweens, teenagers & 20-somethings updating their status daily, it's changed marketing and broadcasting. Watch any show today, and they'll ask you to " join the conversation on Facebook / Twitter "

My pet hate with channel 7 at the moment.

[GreenMachine]

Originally Posted by Mr Hardware

heh, it's funny cos he insinuated flappist has big red shoes.

He may, or he may have a beard and a long white robe... He can't talk right now, he's walking on water off Urangan pier. Or organising a tactical nuke on my office for this insolence.

[DJR-351]

Originally Posted by onfire

My pick goes to Mark Zuckerberg.

Until this post i had never heard of him........

[Yellow_Festiva]

Originally Posted by DJR-351

Until this post i had never heard of him........

Post # 2 ;)

[PHANTMXR6]

Influential=Einstein and Bill Gates.

Important, well that would be me wouldn't it.

[Iggypoppin']

Another for Mark Zuckerberg. Whether you know his name or not, or whether you have a facebook account or not is irrelevant. Facebook has changed the way the world thinks, communicates and behaves.

[flappist]

Originally Posted by onfire

World leaders come and go, celebrities come and go. Different politicians and religious leaders will always have a place. But to truly have influence you need to change the way people live their lives.

My pick goes to Mark Zuckerberg.

The social media revolution, Facebook has changed Generation Y. From using social networking at home & on your phone, it even allowed for the evolution of Twitter and the re-enforcement a lot of what was established with youtube and alike, or at least gave a vehicle for these medians to became a lot more common place.

Outside of tweens, teenagers & 20-somethings updating their status daily, it's changed marketing and broadcasting. Watch any show today, and they'll ask you to " join the conversation on Facebook / Twitter "

Like Print & Radio coming before television, other social media / networks came before Facebook. Yet the ease, connectivity and simplicity made it successful. Like television to the baby boomer generation, social networking will be to Generation Y and beyond.

Only within 10-15 years people will truly understand how much Zuckerberg changed their lives. It sounds corny. But just think back to a World prior to Facebook.

Facebook is the CB radio of the early 21st century. It is a fad that will go the way of Geocities, MySpace, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo, AOL and all the other trendy chewing gum for the brain.

As this is a motor forum, how many remember when the panel van the the super cool transport of choice and the only people who drove utes were farmers and actual tradesmen?
Or when 4WDs were tractors with cabs and were never seen anywhere near schools even in the country. The world constantly changes and it is human nature for those who are directly effected by something to believe that it is a watershed and they are the way of the future.

If you really want a list of people who have changed the world:

In recent history:
Hitler
Osama bin Laden
Stalin

We are still wearing the problems and interference to freedom caused by the over reaction of bureaucrats and weak politicians to what these people have done.

Going further back is difficult as they are all religious leaders and T&C precludes this.

[charles_wif_xf]

The most influential people are the people behind the names already mentioned...

[DJR-351]

Originally Posted by Iggypoppin'

Another for Mark Zuckerberg. Whether you know his name or not, or whether you have a facebook account or not is irrelevant. Facebook has changed the way the world thinks, communicates and behaves.

Try reading the op again....it says PERSON not some social media fad.....

I would say the most influential person in the world (real world not virtual) for the last decade or so, died a few months ago in some previously unknown Pakistani village.....


Edit: Beat me to it flapp....

[|||]

jesus seems to have influenced a few

[Iggypoppin']

Originally Posted by DJR-351

Try reading the op again....it says PERSON not some social media fad.....

I would say the most influential person in the world (real world not virtual) for the last decade or so, died a few months ago in some previously unknown Pakistani village.....


Edit: Beat me to it flapp....

Yes but it was his idea to create facebook, although I do agree with flappist that it could just be a passing fad. That being said no one can deny his influence through facebook on the world today.

[Burnout]

Harry Harbord Morant....

[Yellow_Festiva]

Originally Posted by DJR-351

Try reading the op again....it says PERSON not some social media fad.....

I would say the most influential person in the world (real world not virtual) for the last decade or so, died a few months ago in some previously unknown Pakistani village.....


Edit: Beat me to it flapp....

'Facebook' while not a person is run by people. Lets assume Mark Z still has control of the goings on in the Facebook business.

HE therefore has the ability to control what 800 MILLION people see, be it by email, message, picture, link, clip, sound file... whatever... at the stroke of a key, at any time.

Pretty powerful stuff.... sure, it may be a passing fad, but still very near the top of influential people.

[EFFalcon]

especially since this thread didnt specify a time period.

[raised by monkeys]

Zigmund freud, George Lucas and Jerry Bruckheimer

[Resurrection]

Pope Benedict XVI

[Ezz]

Jesus Christ...

I hear people everywhere saying his name all the time and not just in Church.

[Bridgette01]

You are, of course!

[Legit290]

my mrs

[gtfpv]

i thought about this for a while . barrack obama , the pope, the rockafellas, the priminister of isreal . and than i got it .
its hookers . they influence everybody ?

[bingoTE50]

Richard Branson
Warren Buffet
Steve Bingham

[Bridgette01]

But just think back to a World prior to Facebook.[/QUOTE]

Sounds like bliss...Example....My lunch room at work....6 people under the age of 25 ( all of which are tappin away on their phones or what ever ) in the room amongst 6 others who are older. The older people are talking to each other. If the older people try to talk to the under 25's, this is the response...(eyes up for a second "Hu..What?" eyes back down, continue tappin. This happens for the entire 45 minutes of lunch break.

This maybe off topic a bit, sorry. I am 38 years old

[tex]

Ala.

Seems to influence more people than Jesus father.

[bingoTE50]

Matt White

[Adamz Ghia]

Osama Bin Laden. The world has never been the same since he orchestrated 9/11, and we will for ever feel the effects of it.

A very close second is Mark Z. Facebook isn't like MySpace, AOL, Yahoo ect. It's actually ingrained in our lives now, and while it may not always have the take up rate as it now has, it will never go away.

[SSD-85]

Me. Because ultimately my world doesnt exist without me. As arrogant & egotistical as it sounds, it does have truth to it.

[onfire]

Facebook launched in February 4, 2004 now in 2011 have over 800 million active users.
According to Social Media Today, in April 2010 an estimated 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account.

http://roywells.com/2010/08/15/7-of-...s-on-facebook/

In 2010, with the world population estimated to be at 6.8 billion, and with Facebook reporting around 500 million accounts, the world’s population logging into Facebook calculates out to be about 7%.

Now, with 800 million active users, whats that.. roughly 11.7% of the World population in 2011.

That's pretty damn influential.

[RepSpec]

interesting to see peoples opinions

in the world "implies" that they must be living, but i was interested to see what people said. id say Mark Z (facebook guy) just because of what he has created, also steve Jobs and apple