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.

Facebook's chief creative officer spoke to Ad:tech about the opportunities in mobile for business in New Zealand.

As research discovers Facebook can increase feelings of sadness, Rachel Halliwell explains how she found the social media sweet spot.

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.

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".

Schuler Benson was accidentally logged into a random stranger's Facebook account, a twist of fate that led to a love affair and marriage.

A single mother fed up with her son's bad behaviour penned a letter to him and posted it to Facebook - with a huge response.

We may have stopped forwarding them years ago, but the chain email never really died: It just migrated to Facebook.

Facebook should launch its experiments with online payments in places such as Latin America, Asia and Africa - instead of the US.

Facebook has announced that other companies can use its internal diversity training. But is this a case of "Do as I say and not as I do?"

"I can't believe I'm stuck with this stupid name and I still can't get into my Facebook. It's ludicrous and I am embarrassed to tell people what has happened."

For the first time, users will be able to choose for themselves which posts and pages appear at the top of their feeds.

Before you take your unfriend-number to heart, remember most of the people we connect with on Facebook are not, and were never, actually our friends.

You'll do much better in the 'likes' stakes if you are willing to wait until the optimal time to post on Facebook.

Facebook users will one day be able to send messages and posts telepathically, says founder Mark Zuckerberg.

The kind of food Facebook is advertising to teenagers is the subject of a study being done at the University of Auckland.

A whopping 26 million people have slapped a rainbow flag over their Facebook photos to "celebrate pride."

Residents of Northland have been caught illegally selling crayfish through buy, sell and exchange pages on Facebook.

Google, Facebook and other big internet companies will be forced to hand over encrypted conversations of suspected terrorists and criminals under plans to bolster surveillance powers.

A 20-year-old man pleaded not guilty in the Napier District Court this morning over charges related to a party described as a "Facebook fiasco".