TV3′s new reality show following the lives of young Maori on the Gold Coast has viewers “embarrassed” and social media buzzing with calls for its cancellation. The GC premiered last Wednesday and has drawn more than one negative response among viewers at its portrayal of Maori Aussies– or “Mozzies” – that a Facebook page titled [...]

An Auckland ice cream chef who had his laptop stolen last week has been left “speechless” by overwhelming support from the online community. Head chef and owner of Giapo gelato parlour, Gianpaolo Grazioli, had his Apple MacBook stolen from his Queen St store in Auckland around 2pm on Monday, April 23. Grazioli was serving customers [...]

A priest at St Matthew-in-the-City is hoping the church’s latest billboard – based on the popular social media website Facebook – will encourage debate about Easter. The billboard, on Hobson Street, shows a conventional picture of the crucifixion uploaded onto Facebook. Underneath, it reads “Judas Iscariot ‘likes’ this,” a reference to the figure who betrayed [...]

More than 20,000 people have joined a Facebook event organised by six teenage girls supporting the KONY2012 movement in Auckland. The event is planned for Friday, April 20, when people will meet at the Auckland Domain after sundown, and then blanket the city in KONY2012 posters and stickers. The girls, five of whom attend high [...]

Blog: After revelations that Facebook once again breached the privacy of users, we are left to worry about all the information we let loose online. Should we be concerned that we are being tracked? Does it matter that even when we are offline the sites we visit are being documented in order to target our [...]

VIDEO   Mixed feelings have emerged over Facebook’s latest approach to sharing information – the so-called Timeline. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg  recently announced the update at the company’s F8 Conference. However these changes have brought the company more scrutiny over its privacy issues. Story by Naomi Tan, Isabella Stimpson and Lynelle Smith.

Facebook has admitted this week to tracking users’ internet surfing even when they are off the site. The social networking giant has admitted to constantly monitoring and gathering information about the online activity of its 750 million users. This information is used to create specifically targeted sidebar or pop-up advertising, as well as offering links [...]

Just six hours of social media marketing lead to a Christchurch fundraising haul of $2000 last Tuesday. A Twitter message at about noon read: “Our staff are hosting a charity event at 6pm tonight at the Pioneer Womens hall, cnr of High St & Fryberg Plc, lots of cool prizes Plz RT” About 60 employees [...]