The social networking site is responding to the growing number of cries for help on its pages by including tips and links for users in distress.
The KZN estate agent who enraged many South Africans in January with racist comments on Facebook will appear in court this week.
Social media giant Facebook retracted its ban of an Australian ad featuring a plus-sized model after being accused of body-shaming.
Facebook famous former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor has hit back at the UKMVA chair, saying he pocketed millions of rands meant for anti-apartheid fighters.
Con artists are using Patricia de Lille’s name to solicit details from unwitting users in a phishing scam.
President Zuma has distanced himself from the ex ANC MP’s claims that she accompanied him overseas and that she was offered a job by the Guptas.
The Gupta family on Tuesday challenged Mentor to file an affidavit stating under oath that she was offered a ministerial position by the family.
Skype and WhatsApp are putting pressure on telecoms the world over and governments are being forced to consider regulating such over-the-top services.
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It’s okay to feel warm and fuzzy about Facebook’s founder giving away billions through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, even though he isn’t.
Billionaire’s "gift" won’t directly help the poor. Instead, the money will be moved to a new investment firm – with the aim of making more money.
US presidential candidate is using TV coverage and the power of the social web to publicise his campaign.
The social media giant is testing tools that allow you to hide posts and updates – and untag posts – featuring your ex, writes Hannah Jane Parkinson.
Here’s a handy 10-point etiquette guide to "liking" stuff on social networks.
Mark Zuckerberg’s latest Facebook innovation represents the worst kind of digital slacktivism, writes Roman Krznaric.
When a billion human beings logged onto Facebook last Monday, it was just one landmark in the social network’s quest to connect humanity.
The social network’s policy on anonymity is angering people who have taken new names.
Facebook has opened its first African office in Johannesburg as part of its efforts "to help people and businesses connect" on the continent.
Tim Cook launched a stinging attack on tech giants like Google and Facebook that rely on advertising for the majority of their revenue.
Facebook, the parent company of WhatsApp has announced a Send button that allows users to send their Facebook statuses and news to WhatsApp users.
Virtual communities need to realise that the tweet can be more powerful than the bullet in this world of cyberterrorist realities.
The need to run more efficient servers made Facebook invent a new switch – which lowers their energy use significantly. The whole world profits.
The social network denied it was hacked, after a tweet suggested that hacking group Lizard Squad had been responsible for the outage.
Facebook and Instagram being down on Tuesday morning kept social media users frustrated as they struggled to post pictures of their breakfast.
What’s it like to be one of the biggest mouths on South Africa’s social media scene? Joonji Mdyogolo tracked them and got an earful, and an eyeful.
Among the global sizzlers are Beyoncé, whose sister smacked her hubby, Kim Kardashian for posing nude and Pharrell Williams’s ‘Happy’ hit.
Today’s Facebook, it seems, has decided that it doesn’t particularly like sending its users to publishers’ sites at all, writes Felix Salmon.
Social media, games and fitness dominate the app stores of three of the major smartphone platforms in South Africa, writes Arthur Goldstuck.
A social media report found that there is significant gender balance in South Africans’ use of Facebook, which is also SA’s favourite social network.
Internet use has come full circle, with anonymity becoming prized after years of personal info being shared online, writes Alistair Fairweather.
Although we are living in an age of infinite information, existing in a comfortable bubble has never been easier, writes Alistair Fairweather.
In the same way that social media can make world news out of small miracles, it can also transform a regional conflict into a world war.