Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said the sickening atrocities going on around the world today, which are aimed to ''spread fear and distrust,'' can only be fought back with "understanding, empathy and love.''

Zuckerberg made the comments on his Facebook post after announcing the activation of Facebook's Safety Check app in response to the latest terror attacks in Belgium and Pakistan.

Since the bomb attacks in Paris last year that left 130 people dead, Facebook has offered users a "check-in" feature to tell friends they are safe if they live in the vicinity of the scene of a terrorist attack.

"Each of these attacks was different but all had a common thread: they were carried out with a goal to spread fear and distrust, and turn members of a community against each other.''

"I believe the only sustainable way to fight back against those who seek to divide us is to create a world where understanding and empathy can spread faster than hate, and where every single person in every country feels connected and cared for and loved. That's the world we can and must build together,'' Zuckerberg wrote.

Reacting to Zuckerberg's latest post, former U.S. defence official Jed Babbin said he "can't do anything but laugh'' at the millionaire's comments.

"This is a very popular concept among 12-year-old girls,'' Babbin said, according to the Daily Caller.

Earlier this month, at least 37 people were killed and more than a hundred wounded in Turkey's capital Ankara when a car bomb planted by the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons was detonated in Guvenpark, in the city's south.

Then on March 22, Islamic State (ISIS) suicide bombers struck Brussels, the Belgian capital, killing more than 30 people and wounding another 300.

This was followed by the terrorist attack in Lahore, Pakistan on Easter Sunday, March 27, killing 74 people, at least 24 of them minors, and injuring more than 360 others. An al-Qaeda affiliated splinter-group detonated a bomb in a crowded park, specifically targeting Christians.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for many of the terrorist attacks, including those in Paris and Belgium. The radical Islamic group is also responsible for the displacement and persecution of Christian minorities in the Middle East.