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.

A study of how older teenagers use social media has found that Facebook is "not just on the slide, it is basically dead and buried", an expert says.

Facebook has removed breastfeeding photos from a private group page for mums, angering members.

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?

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.

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 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'.

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.