YOU are the Time Person of the Year.

You and me, the nameless entities who straddle between the real and the virtual worlds, trawling the depths of the Internet and those of us living by it have just been awarded the TIME magazine ‘Person of the Year Award’. We have now joined the haloed portal along with the likes of Charles Lindbergh, Mahatma Gandhi, Queen Elizabeth II, Charles De Gaulle, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela…. TIME’s salutation to You and me couldn’t have happened earlier; haven’t we bared our souls to this gigantic wired and wireless mass, dropped our fears and trepidations and danced our fingers on the keyboard to write and express our opinions, share joys and sorrows, rantings and ravings, picked up that video cam, shot and uploaded out work on You Tube and the like. We have made the Internet what it is and have got so much much more in return than we have given.

Image courtesy TIME magazine.