Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and American colleague Thomas Marshburn who are avid users of Twitter aboard the International Space Station have taken several stunning photos of New Zealand as they orbit 370km above the Earth.

Thousands of people are visiting a Facebook page that details where police checkpoints and hidden speed cameras are located nationwide.

A video meant for Mike Pero Real Estate's internal use and parodying a supposed rival agency boss as Adolf Hitler, was accidentally posted online.

Jamie Curry's videos about anything and everything have attracted millions of fans from around the world.

Much has been written about the risks social media presents to youthful careers but it is not just young people posting awkward selfies who can get tripped up by what they post online.

A message on social media shatters an Aucklander's belief that his older brother died 33 years ago

More than half of the world's business executives think their company is underdeveloped in the art of social business, according to a recent study.

If political parties have codes of conduct for social media, they are apparently flexible depending on how senior the MP is, writes Claire Trevett.

There are no flash cars parked outside Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, California, only smart cars.

Facebook has asked the Government for an exemption from a new spying law that could see its two million Kiwi users' messages subject to GCSB interception.

Twitter. Even the name is ridiculous. If I told you I "booped" or "qwanged" or "quiffed" 50 times a day, it would make me strange, an escaper from Dr Seuss' day surgery.

Dire finances means beauty salon owners will get less of a payout from an employee they caught via Facebook treating clients at home.

Thanks to social media, the secret that a New Zealand brand of washing machine can sing anthems has been uncovered.

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.

Ex-BBC consultant Michele Romaine has this week installed a rigid social media policy at TVNZ, dubbed "The Rules".

Television singing coach Seal has made a sudden about-face and apologised for a Twitter outburst aimed at the media and a Sydney hotel.

Privacy scholars refer to the dangers of aggregation of data and the potential this affords for profiling of individuals and for making of assumptions, writes Gehan Gunasekara.

A top legal expert has waded into the "racist" cartoon row, by saying the law cannot regulate "ignorant, uninformed, and generally crass behaviour".

The cartoonist whose drawings depict overweight brown-skinned adults exploiting the Government's breakfast in schools programme says he has received hate mail.

The cartoonist who penned two controversial cartoons won't apologise for them and says they weren't racist because they depict a mix of ethnicities.

Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy says she found cartoons printed in two South Island newspapers personally offensive, but they were not racist.

Sometimes kids can look like they're living in another world. While the day whirls around them, they're lost in their mobile phones - photographing, tweeting, texting, emailing.

Prime Minister John Key was bubbling over with generosity on Saturday night as son Max celebrated his 18th birthday with friends.