BY PET MELLIZA, The Beekeeper Social networks in the world wide web (WWW) is proving to be a powerful medium of information that gives a new twist to what “socializing” means. We thought the word means just “pasosyal-sosyal lang” , the sort of association done by people to kill time or fight off boredom, the way matronas converge on hotel lounges to trade gossips. Pardon this sexist statement; the same also holds true for men who are also prone to trivia. Last Friday, February 11, we got a text message from media colleague Peter Jimenea who forwarded to me what he got from Alex Vidal in the U.S. announcing Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak stepping down, ending 30 years of authoritarian rule. He toppled from widespread protests, when millions of Egyptians swarmed the streets outpouring their unarmed outrage that, incidentally, forced the army into catatonic inaction. At the initial stages of the protests, the Mubarak dictatorship shut down broadcast stations and