Are you a Facebooker, or is Instagram or Twitter more your thing? No matter which, it's a pretty safe bet you'll be living a social media life somewhere these days.

Organisers of NRL Auckland Nines are trying to get tickets removed from Trade Me as scalpers start cashing in on New Zealand's bumper event calendar.

In a decade, Facebook has exploded from its humble beginnings as "thefacebook" in Mark Zuckerberg's dorm room in 2004, to the website with more than 1 billion users.

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.

The chances of GST being applied to all overseas web-based retail purchases appear more distant after the Govt changed tack on a review into tax of online shopping.

The email accounts of tens of thousands of Telecom Xtra customers have been hacked again, and this time there could be no end in sight to the deluge from fraudsters.

"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."

It takes a fairly precocious 22-year-old to turn down an offer of US$1 billion ($1.23 billion) for a loss-making company.

Animal loving New Zealanders are being lured into scams by dreams of fluffy kittens and adorable puppies.

The family of a man who was stomped to death by teenagers is shocked the ringleader has been running a Facebook page for two years - from his prison cell.

Parents are losing hundreds of dollars through fraudulent websites claiming to sell popular baby products.

A frustrated mother turned to YouTube after her son was assaulted and police showed little initial interest in making arrests.

"Disgraceful comments" by right-wing blogger Cameron Slater, which have led to death threats, meant he was asking for trouble, according to the Grey District Mayor.

Right-wing blog site Whaleoil has crashed after a sustained denial-of-service attack.

A Dunedin man who falsified his Facebook profile to contact a teenage boy for sex offending has been jailed for three years.

Will the internet giant evolve into the biggest retailer in the world? Katherine Rushton looks at what the future holds for the Seattle-based company.

Money lenders are peering into the Facebook and Twitter profiles of would-be borrowers to look for evidence of debts or dodgy spending habits.

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.

With such polarised approaches there's really only one conclusion to be reliably made about the purpose of Twitter...

Police are giving away few details of the progress they're making on the Roast Busters underage sex investigation - but say they're doing all they can for the alleged victims.

More than a third of single men use social media to spy on potential partners - some using what they find online to cancel the first date, a survey has found.

I'd wager that the PR hacks of the established political parties are looking at the media scrum surrounding Kim Dotcom's political party with envy, writes Pat Pilcher.