Facebook is getting rid of a privacy feature that lets users limit who can find them on the social network.

A recent study about Facebook made headlines across the world with claims that using the social media made people sad - but is that really the case?

Parental oversharing has become commonplace thanks to social media. Emma Rowley meets the controversial blogger telling proud mums and dads to put a lid on it.

Facebook is being closely watched after the social network said it was considering running users' profile photos through its controversial facial recognition technology.

Modern break-ups are, it would appear, a lot more complicated than those of past generations.

There are a few serial posters that are ruining Facebook. You know the ones, the friends who pop up on your feed while your scrolling through and make you growl.

The world's largest and most popular internet sites are in secret discussions to create a system that could wipe child abuse images from the web.

By the time you read this, I'll be gone. I will have ended it, I'll have popped my clogs, cashed in my chips. That's right, I have deleted my Facebook account.

Facebook's net income and revenue grew in the first quarter of the year, helped by an increase in mobile ad revenue, a figure some sceptical investors are watching closely.

Facebook users are being warned to secure their profiles after an Auckland woman's account was hacked and more than $300 was charged to her credit card.

Facebook users have to pay 65 cents to message anyone outside their group of friends - unless they're contacting people like Richie McCaw, who is worth twice that.

A Facebook page set up to name and shame Rotorua shoplifters with personal photos has been set up and taken down - but not without hundreds seeing it first.

An alleged offender chased through Rotorua by police after a Facebook tip-off has been denied bail, with his lawyer admitting the odds were stacked against him.

Police have developed a specialist software tool which mines social media for information.

Facebook is being sued for allegedly infringing the patents of a Dutch internet inventor with the social networking site's "like" and "share" buttons.

Almost half of New Zealand is on Facebook, but more than half of those don't care about social media.

The fall in the number of UK Facebook users had led many to speculate that Facebook has hit a saturation point in developed markets like the UK and could be going backwards.

A government employee who was sacked after she accessed client records of Facebook 'friends' has won her job back until a full hearing can be held next year.

TVNZ has complained to Facebook after the publication of weight-loss ads using stars such as Petra Bagust, Toni Street and Shavaughn Ruakere.

New Zealand is going to find it increasingly difficult to tax multinational companies like Google and Facebook, says a specialist tax consultant.

Facebook's "tiny" and "barely believable" tax bill this year makes a mockery of New Zealand's tax loopholes for multinationals, says the Labour Party.