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Social media: The biggest stories of 2012
Here are the top five ways we embraced social media this year. (Credit: Illustration by James Martin/CNET) Social media hit new heights this year; Facebook reached 1 billion users, many people in developing nations are logging in to social networks as soon as they get Internet access, and the companies behind these digital communities are starting to make money off the sites.