A father's emotional appeal to Mark Zuckerberg for his dead son's retrospective 'Look Back' film has received an "overwhelming" response - provoking action from Facebook itself.

"I thought it was going to be a bit lame, but I gave in." Kiwis have been hooked by Facebook's latest gimmick, which puts together a short movie of their online life.

"Will the all-powerful Facebook burn out in just a few short years?" asks Patrick Kelly. "Contributing factors to the notion that users are abandoning the site are most certainly people's concerns over privacy and advertising."

Pop icon Prince is suing fans who posted his live performances on Facebook or blogs - to the tune of £605,000 (NZ$1,216,500) each.

Like the bubonic plague, Facebook will soon die out as users become immune to its influence, an American study has predicted.

After two months on the run from the police, one criminal decided to celebrate by sharing a wanted picture of himself on Facebook - before being arrested hours later.

Stories of Facebook allowing beheading videos but removing breastfeeding images has led many to question how Facebook should treat controversial content.

A woman brutally bashed by her husband with a gun turned to Facebook for help after he pulled the phone out of the wall to stop her calling police.

Australia can now take credit for the term "selfie" - Oxford Dictionaries' international word of the year for 2013.

Single women should get off Facebook because the "perfect lives" of their friends are bad for their health, a relationship expert has warned.

Sports star David Beckham is using brand new technology to bring him closer to fans as he releases his new book.

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.

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.

The principals of two Dunedin high schools are worried the latest "babe of the day'' Facebook page could put pupils at risk from sexual predators.

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.