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.

Bang With Friends assures privacy and discretion until both friends are 'down to bang'.

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.