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A mother has told of her horror of realising an online predator was grooming her teenage daughter on Facebook, sparking renewed warnings from safety experts. The WA mum-of-four became suspicious when she read a message from a user called “Sarah Jamesy” while monitoring her 14-year-old’s page. Related: What your kids are really up to online […]

The Australian Defence Force is investigating military personnel’s connections to offensive sexist and anti-Muslim Facebook pages and posts. Townsville-based soldiers are apparently connected to pages with anti-women titles like “Big Tits Don’t Count If Ya Fat” containing posts referring to local women as “sluts”, Fairfax Media reports. The offensive Facebook posts have come to attention […]

Women who have had mastectomies can now share photos of their experience on Facebook after the social media giant caved to user pressure and clarified its nudity policy. Previously, Facebook removed any images of mastectomy scars and banned users who posted them for 30 days, deeming the pictures to be in breach of its strict […]

They’re dubbed the iGeneration, constantly attached to computers and smartphones and more socially active online than in the playground, but a study of the after school habits of Aussie teens reveals they prefer spending time at home with mum and dad than Facebook friends. The in-depth study which looked at 200 Canberra teenagers between the […]

Millions of parents are choosing to share their child’s most humiliating moments on social media. Zoe Arnold asks where we should draw the line. I was doing some research online (okay, reading random items I’ve googled) and I stumbled across a gem of a blog called There’s no place like Mommy. I was reading it […]

A 22-year-old mother has tried to sell her two kids on Facebook for $5000. Hilarious, right? That’s probably what she thought. Until she was arrested. Misty VanHorn allegedly tried to sell her two-year-old for $1,000, and asked for $4,000 for her four-year-old to get enough cash to bail her boyfriend out of jail. Hollywood Life […]

After years of being bullied and feeling bad about her body, 18-year-old Stella Boonshoft did not expect to be overwhelmed with positive feedback after an image she posted on her blog wearing only her underwear went viral last week. The photograph of the size 16 New York student and the impassioned blog post that accompanied […]

Prince Harry has deleted his Facebook account amid fears more private photos of him could be leaked by his unsuspecting friends. The 27-year-old royal is a huge fan of the social networking site, and has been using it for four years under the pseudonym Spike Wells. Harry used the site to keep in touch with […]

We’re all guilty of flicking through our friends’ holiday snaps on Facebook, but how much do we let it affect us? Have you felt little pangs of jealousy when you saw how much better a Facebook friend’s vacation looked than yours? How their clothes looked more expensive and their hair more glamorous? Their children seemed […]

Becoming a mother turns women in compulsive Facebook users, a new study has found. Researchers from Ohio State University interviewed 154 mothers and 150 fathers and found that 44 percent of mothers reported using Facebook more after giving birth than before. Around 29 percent estimated they used the social networking site the same as before […]