The popularity of social networking - The Philippines leads the world in social networking / Jon Russell - Indonesian society is enamored with social networking / Sarah Mishkin - Africa is beginning to experience a boom in social networking using mobile phones / André-Michel Essoungou - The Japanese tsunami may spur more widespread use of social media / Eric Johnston - Facebook's popularity may have peeked in the United Kingdom and other western nations / Charles Arthur - Uses of social networking - In Western Europe, journalists make increasing use of social networks in their reporting / Cision - In the United States, social networking is helping military veterans recover from trauma / Matthew M. Burke - In Canada, social media is being explored as a disaster warning device / Janet Davison - When Chávez tweets, Venezuelans listen / Ezequiel Minaya and Kejal Vyas - Social networking and democratic movements - Worldwide, social networking may help authoritarian regimes more than it helps democratic movements / The Economist - Social networking was important in, thought not solely responsible for, Tunisia's revolution / Ethan Zuckerman - Social networking has opened Singapore to democracy / Raymond Tham - The web that failed : how opposition politics and independent initiatives are failing on the Internet in Russia / Floriana Fossato and John Lloyd with Alexander Verkhovsky - Social networking and access to information - Social media privacy issues must be addressed / David Lindsay and Ian Brown, as told to Damien Carrick - The German government is demanding that Facebook address privacy concerns / Christopher Williams - Britain's Internet crackdown could herald more censorship of the Internet / Peter Apps - In Mexico, criminal gangs police social media / Samuel Logan - India is contemplating censoring social media / Sujoy Dhar - Cuba's young people have little access to social media / Franco Ordoñez.