Social media

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made a donation to help four US college students seeking to create an alternative to the social media behemoth.

Facebook has responded to privacy concerns by announcing simplified privacy controls and applying them retroactively, so users can protect the status updates and photos they have posted in the past.

It might go against conventional wisdom, but a new report is adding fuel to the argument that young people are fast becoming the gurus of online reputation management - especially when it comes to social networking sites.

Facebook will roll out new, simpler privacy controls today, after criticism of its latest privacy settings by users, governments and privacy groups, including New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has publicly admitted the giant social media site got it wrong with recent changes to privacy settings, and he says improvements are on their way.

New Zealanders unhappy with changes to Facebook's privacy settings can share their concerns with the Privacy Commissioner.

An online poll indicates 60% of people are considering leaving Facebook due to privacy concerns.

Facebook is facing another round of backlash about its privacy policies.

Just because popular social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, encourage members to use their actual identities doesn't mean people are presenting themselves online the way they do in real life.

Facebook's millions of users are a lucrative target for Internet criminals looking to steal passwords and more. To combat malicious attacks, phishing scams and spam, the online social network is rolling out new security features.

When Elizabeth Zapien-Plata wants to know what her son is doing she could call. But she knows it's probably faster to just check his Facebook page.

It became one of the most talked about Jersey Shore moments.

A Twitter glitch has allowed users to game the popularity contest by making it appear that celebrities had subscribed to read their mini-blog postings known as tweets.

He's unemployed and isn't much of a computer expert. The Frenchman accused of infiltrating Twitter and peeping at the accounts of President Barack Obama and singers Britney Spears and Lily Allen says he wanted to reveal just how vulnerable online data systems are to break-ins - and he says he didn't mean any harm.

A young man spurned by a teenage girl he fell for later set up a Facebook page to harass her, a court was told.

A federal jury has been given the case of a mother accused of conspiring with her daughter and an assistant to harass a 13-year-old girl on the Internet, allegedly precipitating the teen's suicide.

The holiday period can provide some heartache for families separated by the tyranny of distance from their loved ones.

Eily Toyama gave in after friends pestered her to join Facebook. But she used her cat's name instead of her own so she could avoid networking requests from people she didn't really want to connect to. And don't even ask her about Twitter unless you want to get an eye roll.

Facebook is trying its hand at democracy.