Americans 'spent 101,000 years of time on Facebook in May 2011'

Washington, Sept 18 (ANI): A newly released report has revealed that Americans spend more time than ever on Facebook.

According to Nielsen, the media research and ratings company, Americans spend a lot of time pursuing social networks and blogs.Americans spend more time on Facebook than any other site," Live Science quoted the report as saying.

According to the statistics for the month of May, the most recent month for which data had been collected, Americans spent 53.5 billion total minutes on Facebook - roughly 101,720 years and there were 140 million unique visitors to the site that month, with the average user spent 382 minutes, or 6.4 hours, browsing Facebook in May.

Based on the profile of the type of Internet user who is most likely to use Facebook by the Nielsen report, the person is an Asian-American female between the age of 18 and 34, lives in New England, makes less than 50,000 dollars per year, and has at least a bachelor's degree. (ANI)