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The number of group on the Computer network surpassed one one million million000000000000 in Gregorian calendar month, accordant to comScore. The existent number is probably high than that (Computer network World Stats counted nearly 1.5 one million million000000000000 Web surfers world-wide as of June 30, 2008).

We already know that Facebook is the webs biggest time sink. If you look at the average come of time (accordant to Nielsen) users eat on the social communication system, Facebook is a clear gambler concluded sites so much as Google or Yahoo.Now, accordant to comScore, Facebook is also first when it comes to the total come of time users square measure disbursement on the computer. In Revered, U.S. web users worn out 41.1 million proceedings on Facebook, which was about 9.9% of their whole web-surfing time in that calendar month. In this European period, group worn out 39.8 million proceedings on no of Googles sites, and those view other Brobdingnagian online timesink YouTube.comScore puts Hayseed in third place, with U.S. web users disbursement 37.7 million proceedings on its sites, which was about 9.1% of their web water sport time in August.The book square measure even more than effective when you consider that Facebook had just overtaken Hayseed in July, and in Revered last time period U.S. web surfers had worn out little than 5% of their online time on the social networking service.Still, it hardly comes as a move: Facebook has been organic process steadily in the last couple of eld, and in July it proclaimed it had concluded 500 million active users.If Facebook keeps organic process, a time period from nowadays Google Gregorian calendar month find itself right buttocks Facebook when it comes to web users proceedings. But does Facebook have elbow room for growth? Mark Zuckerberg predicts the sites userbase strength even reach one one million million000000000000. The number doesnt sound too far-fetched, assumption that Facebook still has elbow room for foreign growth for mental representation in Porcelain and Russia.Of course, comScore lone counts users from the U.S., so the orbicular picture is still blurry. But the facts show that Facebook users eat a Brobdingnagian come of time on the computer, and its a worrying stat for Google. Googles galore online properties (Gmail, Search and YouTube, to name a small indefinite quantity) have huge influence and reach. But right nowadays, without a large social networking object (Orkut doesnt count as intellectual contest to Facebook anymore), Google will have a hard time snatching users time from Facebooks hands.[img credit: Lowell Jackson Thomas Hawk]More About: ComScore, facebook, GoogleFor more than Social Media coverage:Follow Mashable Social Media on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Social Media channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad