Americans spend about 22.7 percent of their time online on social networking sites Twitter and Facebook. This is a big leap from the 15.8 percent last year. This is according to Nielsen who also said that Americans spend more time “online socializing” than playing games.
Americans spend only 10.2 percent of their time to play games. E-mailing now only 8.3 percent while instant messaging and portals have greatly decreased.
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