In today’s Quick Hits, Mark Zuckerberg is Time’s newly crowned Person of the Year, Katie Couric talks about Internet privacy, and we ponder the connection between social communities of the 1980s and today.

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Mark Zuckerberg is Time’s Person of the Year

Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2010. Time’s sprawling 10 page profile of Zuckerberg offers a number of intriguing insights into the Facebook CEO’s life before and after developing the world’s largest social network. A mini war is brewing in the comments of the Time magazine piece excoriating the magazine for not selecting Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. One wonders if Time won’t be the next target for an anonymous hacker attack.

Digital Natives Comfortable With Sharing Because They Understand Privacy Controls

In an article for CNN’s “End of Privacy” series, Doug Gross explores perceptions of social media privacy among members of Generation Y. In his article, Gross cites Pew research that shows concern over privacy online has dropped in the last half-decade. The drop is not because users aren’t aware of the risks, however, but rather because social media users, particularly those who grew up with the Internet, are more skilled at managing their privacy controls. Gross writes that the cliche of a college student sharing party pictures online for the whole world to see may be fading away.

Comparing Social Networks Across Generations

In a very interesting article for BBC, Rory Cellan-Jones writes about the history of social networking and how some of the same things that make Facebook successful today were also inherent to previous iterations of social networking websites. Specifically, Cellan-Jones explores the development of Friendster in the early 2000s and the Whole Earth Catalogue, an online community formed in the 1980s. In each of these web communities, an emphasis was placed on using real names and maintaining authentic identities, something which has helped shape the Internet as it is today.

Seven Ways to Sabotage Your Social Life on Facebook

In a special for Yahoo News, Yahoo contributor Jennie Lee Williams discusses seven common ways that Facebook users ruin their relationships on the social networking site and annoy other users in the process. Cataloging the worst offenders by names such as “The Pusher” and “The Autobiographer,” Williams talks about some Facebook styles that we’ve all seen and probably been bothered by in the past.

Katie Couric Talks Internet Privacy and Bullying for Brian Solis’ Revolution Series

In a special segment of his popular (R)evolution video series, social media expert Brian Solis talks about the Internet with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric. Over the course of the segment, Couric and Solis talk about Internet privacy, cyberbullying, and other timely issues.