With digital pet therapy in mind, we have compiled our ten favourite cat videos - and as research suggests, there's no need for you to feel bad about it.

A new trend is blowing up on Chinese social media: The Belly Button Challenge. Here are five other unhealthy body image challenges that have taken over social media.

The trend has exploded on Chinese social media - and been criticised by those who point out it promotes unhealthy ideas about body image.

Exclusive: Overseas predator tried to blackmail an Auckland teenage girl by posting photos on a porn site, hacking her family's computer and college’s website.

An offensive Twitter account known for it's misogynist trolling tried to take aim at popular New Zealand YouTube blogger Shaaanxo.

Auckland's own Snapchat story is causing quite a stir online where it's been dismissed as "boring" and "cringe".

Ah, weddings on Pinterest: 38 million boards brimming with white, pink and gold for all to admire.

Our social media scout Cam Mansel gives you the run down of things you might have missed in the weird and wonderful world of celebrity social media.

Four students have been excluded from one of the country's top schools for taking and sending images that constituted "harassment".

For all the things we post to Instagram, more telling are those that we don't and why. Emma Gleason unveils the things we never post.

It was social media that connected American computer networking guru Steve Cotter with his New Zealand job.

Our social media scout Cam Mansel gives you the run down of things you might have missed in the weird and wonderful world of celebrity social media.

Social media and some news agencies were sent into a fluster last night after a BBC journalist tweeted that the Queen had been hospitalised.

Our social media scout Cam Mansel gives you the run down of things you might have missed in the weird and wonderful world of celebrity social media.

Is New Zealand in a golden era of death threats? The advent of social media has made threatening a media personality easier and safer for both sides, writes Matt Heath.

Children are stumbling across foul language, violence and sexual content on YouTube, but keeping them safe online is increasingly falling to parents.

It turns out there's a text message that you can send iPhone users that will shut down their phones.

A man "fat-shamed" on social media after pictures of him dancing were posted online has got his own back on the trolls by partying the night away with stars in LA.

Tech writer Juha Saarinen on social media SMS messages reinstated on Vodafone and reviews the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge.

Destiny Church is circulating images of wads of cash and the Twitter hashtag "iwannagive" to followers before its annual conference.

Twitter's ad team will do about anything to win clients yet ad agencies still devote most of their budgets to Facebook and Google.

Women have hit back at the rising 'dad bod' trend by sharing pictures of their own bodies, in all their curvy, healthy glory, on social media and labelling them with the hashtag #MomBod.

New research has found that only four per cent of New Zealanders agreed they felt close to people in their local area.

A young mother suffering from skin cancer has been praised for her bravery after sharing a shocking photo of her treatment as a stark warning to sunbed users.

The very first thing I do when I wake up in the morning - and the very last thing I do at night - is pick up my phone, press the Twitter app and see what's going on in the world.

Private investigator Daniel Toresen asks, can you serve court notices via Facebook? "The rule of effective service is to bring the notice to the person's attention in an expedient manner. Facebook is now an accepted method to do just that."

Online anger has led to a real-life vigilante attack after police say a Facebook post prompted two Cromwell men to assault another man.