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Social media giant Facebook on announced that over 80 million users in India use Groups each month to stay in touch with family, collaborate on projects, plan trips and offer support to friends.

"Last year, millions of people in Facebook Groups left more than 100 billion comments in Groups and there were more than 250 billion likes on Group posts," said Facebook in a statement.

The company recently introduced Discover, a new feature where you can browse groups by category and get recommendations based on your friends, location and interests. Discover offers 25 different categories such as parenting, sports, food, buy and sell, networking, animals and pets, hobby and leisure, support and comfort and travel.

Back in 2014, that the company launched 'Goups’ app for Android and iOS. Back then, more than 700 million of Facebook’s 1.35 billion members were said to use Groups.

With inputs from IANS