The prime minister's wife Rosmah Mansor has advised netizens not to believe in whatever goes viral in the social media as coming from her as she does not have a Facebook or Twitter account.

Instead, she said, those who want to know about her can post their questions to her directly.

"I've never had a Facebook account. I'm not on Twitter either. I just have this antique Samsung (mobile phone). As long as I can make calls, accept calls and reply the SMS (short message service)," she said.

"If you read it (on social media), then you've been duped. If there's anything (you want to know) about me, just ask me face-to-face. Straight to the point, don't tell lies," Rosmah was quoted as saying by Bernama.

She said this at the annual gathering of the National Sayang Squad, which was held in conjunction with the Umno General Assembly 2016 at the Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

Motivated to attend Zuckerberg's talk

Rosmah said the existence of multiple fake Facebook accounts using her name had also motivated her to attend the keynote address given by Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg at the CEO Summit 2016 in Lima, Peru, recently.

She said her excitement to meet with Zuckerberg so early in the morning also left her husband, Najib Abdul Razak, puzzled.

"I told him (Najib) that I want to ask Zuckerberg if there is any mechanism for him (Zuckerberg) to detect false Facebook accounts.

"I waited, but there was not question-and-answer session as he (Zuckerberg) had to rush to another place. I really wanted to ask him because Facebook also has its flaws," she said.

Earlier, in her speech to the gathering, Rosmah, who is the patron of the Sayang Squad, reminded all members to improve their social media knowledge and intelligence skills as social media has already transformed the landscape of national politics.

"Make optimal use of strategic social media channels to promote our efforts.

"Use social media as our cyber weapon to disseminate the correct information and to counter all the allegations and lies hurled by the opposition," she said.

Rosmah said the move was apt as the Malaysian Digital Landscape 2016 survey revealed that 69 percent or 21 million of Malaysia's 31.5 million population were Internet users.

Of the total, 68 percent were active users of popular social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, she said, adding that on average, Malaysians spent 5.1 hours on the Internet or 2.8 hours on social media a day.