Author and video game designer Jane McGonigal says the world would be a lot better off if more people played video games. Sorry, cigarettes and candy bars are still bad for you.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has seized 10 websites that were linking to illegal sports content. One U.S. senator thinks they've overstepped their bounds.

That's the United States president we're talking about here. Not the guy in Egypt. There's a big push about to happen on Capitol Hill to give the chief executive power to take over private computer networks in the event of a large scale cyber attack on the nation's infrastructure. But events in Egypt are forcing the effort's defenders to do some explaining.

Cisco has issued a report charting the massive growth in mobile internet. In short: it's skyrocketing. By 2015, people will be sending and receiving 26 times as much mobile data as they do today. Developing nations are skipping the traditional Internet and moving to mobile only. Is the system ready for all that traffic?

In the wake of massive protests in Egypt, other countries have been paying attention and sometimes covering things up. The government of China is suppressing mentions of the uprising. Iran is blocking access to news sites, perhaps fearing renewed protests in their country.

The situation in Egypt is the largest uprising since the internet and social media became a major part of our world. Protesters used Twitter, Facebook, text messages, emails, all sorts of electronic means to co-ordinate their efforts and stay informed of where things stood. But when the government tried to unplug the Internet, the revolution continued.

A few months ago on our program we talked about Firesheep. It's a little program that you can use to spy on anyone on an unsecured public Wi-Fi network. Using it, it's easy to tap into Facebook accounts since those run on an unsecured protocol. But now Facebook has done something about it, allowing users to select an "https" setting instead of "http".

Does your Internet service provider keep track of where you've been online and how long you spent there? They might. Or they might not. There are no laws requiring ISPs to keep records of their customers. The Department of Justice says there should be. This week they called for ISPs to keep records for an as yet unspecified amount of time.

Egypt is erupting with anti-government protests and there are reports coming out that the government is cracking down on Twitter, making it harder for protesters to organize and stay in touch. Social media is now a huge part of protests around the world. On today's show, we take a look at the role of Facebook in the recent upheaval in Tunisia.

You can get on Facebook and get in touch with hundreds of your "friends", connect with them, find out how they're doing. But are those real relationships?