Constantly checking social media has a major impact on our rest, a major US study has found.

Bill does not forward chain emails. He does not take duck-faced selfies or click into schemes from Nigerian princes. He certainly doesn't play Candy Crush.

Conspiracy theories, hoaxes and other variants of baloney have become so prevalent and intractable on Facebook.

What Wall Street has taken to calling the FANG stocks - Facebook, Amazon.com, Netflix and Google - had an amazing year, with gains ranging from 34 to 178 per cent.

An investigation has been launched into racist comments and allegations of sexual assault at a New Year's Eve beach party in Mount Maunganui.

Facebook is saying you and your friends go back 46 years.

St Louis photographer Corey Woodruff is on a mission to capture a portrait of every single one of his 738 Facebook friends.

Facebook testing changes to its strict 'real name' policy enforcement that will requires users to use their "real" names on the social network.

Following Donald Trump calling for a temporary yet ban on Muslims entering the United States, CEOs have joined the discussion on religion, immigration and xenophobia.

Deep inside Facebook's massive new HQ, the largest open-office workspace in the world, sits the desk of Lindsay Russell.

Facebook founder and his wife celebrate birth of their baby girl with plan to donate 99 per cent of their Facebook fortune to charity.

Facebook's new headquarters is the largest open-office in the world, and shows everyone the future of work.

Internet users seeking to hide social media posts under Europe's 'right to be forgotten' law.

With a picture on his Facebook page of a car seat, a stroller and his dog, Mark Zuckerberg announced he'd be taking two months of parental leave.

Secondary Principals' Association executive discussed fresh incidents involving schoolboys and shocking posts on social media with police last week.

Mark D'Arcy, the West Auckland-raised chief creative officer of Facebook is a mercurial potato head.

Facebook needs to look hard at Safety Check before using it in disasters, writes Juha Saarinen. A very good friend of mine was informed via Facebook that her friends in Paris were safe. Not just once, but through five separate notifications.

Dumped on Facebook by a friend? Me too, writes Laura Marcus, and it stings. Here she looks at online friendships and their effect on your self-esteem.

The latest prescription of this sort comes from a Danish think tank called the Happiness Research Institute, which this week published a new report on the connection between Facebook use and basically every negative emotion a human can feel.

Facebook wants to take all your information and route it through a platform it controls: Notify, an app that's purpose is to send you notifications.

Facebook has finally taken down photos of a murdered woman with the man who killed her after previously refusing to do so.

A group of secondary school boys have been assaulting young women in broad daylight and posting videos to social media.

Police have let school boys off with warnings after they performed lewd acts on drunk girls and posted pictures online.

It's something of a tradition now to film drunk girls - sometimes guys - at the Melbourne Cup and upload them for others to laugh at, Heather writes.

Mozilla is warning web users that the push to squeeze ever more internet consumption into apps risks undermining a neutral, public internet.

The heartbroken mother of a bullied teen has appealed to her daughter's tormenters to stop their dangerous words.

A wildlife sanctuary boss is lost for words after photos of him dressed in drag were sent to Wellington City Councillors with a poison pen letter.

Spam filter accidentally blocked a simple phrase "everyone will know".