It has been found that they spend more than three hours a day surfing the social media platform.

Asia-Pacific Facebook Vice-President Dan Neary was reported in the Oriental Daily as saying that studies revealed that netizens in the country spend an average of 187 minutes a day surfing Facebook.

This is more than the 160 minutes spent by Facebook users in Thailand, 140 minutes in the Philippines and 129 minutes in Indonesia.

He said Malaysians prefer to use Facebook as a platform to communicate with their Facebook friends, compared with other countries.

Facebook Malaysia Manager Nicole Tan said Facebook users in the country were very active.

Statistics show that other services under Facebook, such as Messenger had 900 million users, WhatsApp had one billion users and Instagram had 400 million users worldwide.