It makes one wonder why married couples must declare their unquestionable adoration for each other on Facebook. Do they not see each other every single day of their lives?

Former US President Barack Obama has recently joined a growing chorus of critics of social media.

Facebook accounts and telephone records can be used to pinpoint the best individuals to vaccinate to stop a disease outbreak in its tracks, researchers say.

Let’s have a look at the top stories that rocked the social media platforms in 2017.

Facebook acknowledges that using social media can be bad for your health.

Monthly active users of Facebook Messenger have grew to over 1.3 billion in 2017. Plus, each day in 2017, over seven billion conversations have taken place on the platform, with holidays (New Years, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day) proving particularly popular times to connect.

Facebook begins to roll out the new Snooze feature, allowing users to discreetly -- and temporarily --unfollow someone's posts.

A former Facebook executive accuses the social network of ripping society apart.

The government and Facebook authorities jointly begin the process to verify all the Facebook pages of the ministries and division officials for the welfare of its citizens.

A new European study finds that materialistic people are more likely to have more friends on Facebook, as they may see people as "digital objects" that can be collected.

Facebook is trying to combat "revenge porn" by encouraging users in Australia to submit their nude photos to a pilot project designed to prevent intimate images from being shared without consent.

G7 countries and tech giants including Google, Facebook and Twitter agree to work together to block the dissemination of Islamist extremism over the internet.

Facebook announces initiatives to help struggling news organisations gain paid subscribers, following a similar move unveiled earlier by Google.

Facebook Inc launches a service through which its US users can order food for take-away or delivery directly through its app or website.

Facebook Inc is launching a new virtual reality headset that does not require a separate computer to operate, allowing more mobile uses than the company’s existing Oculus Rift product, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg says.

Police arrests a young man from a madrasah in Ramganj upazila for posting derogatory comments about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his Facebook wall.

Some 10 million people in the United States sees politically divisive ads on Facebook that the company says have been purchased in Russia in the months before and after last year’s US presidential election, Facebook says on Monday.

Social media giant Facebook is expected to provide Congress with more than 3,000 ads that ran around the time of the 2016 presidential election and are linked to a Russian ad agency.

Twitter (TWTR.N) says it has suspended about 200 Russian-linked accounts as it probes online efforts to meddle with the 2016 US election, but an influential Democratic senator slammed its steps as insufficient.

Mark Zuckerberg in his official Facebook page have posted about a convenient way for Indian people to find and have access to safe blood donors in India.