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I first like Orkut and yes, you haven't mentioned it. I guess you have forgot to mention. So to answer within the options that you have placed then mine would be my space. I have got used of it so i like to use it.

Hey i like Face book because at first i know that alone so i use to make use of it a lot and i am comfortable with that too. So not able to go into another alternatives so i keep using it and i am comfortable too.

Almost one in five people who log on to the internet has signed up to a social networking site like Facebook, Bebo or Myspace.

The figures from Ofcom’s annual report show how the use of these sites has moved from being a niche activity to a mainstream phenomenon in just a few years.

Between March and April this year, 17 per cent of internet users had created a profile on one of these sites, which usually involves inputing personal details and uploading a photograph.

But of those, 42 per cent were students and two per cent retired internet users.

Facebook, which is accessed by David Cameron and apparently Gordon Brown, now attracts 4.5 million regular users, making it one of the most visited sites in UK.

Growing numbers of people are using it despite recent warnings that they could be leaving themselves wide open to identity fraudsters.

In terms of hours spent on sites, however, Ebay, the online auction house which sells everything from soap to Honda motorbikes, comes out on top.

Some 19.3 million hours were spent on Ebay in April, twice as much as the time spent on its nearest rival bebo.com (19.1 million).

The BBC site andGoogle came third (8.2million), Myspace fourth (8.1 million) and MSN fifth (7 million).

Steve Moore, who advises companies on social media, said that until early this year Facebook had been the preserve of teenagers.

“Since May, the demographic has changed, with more and more over-25s and under-25s signing up,” he said.

“The attraction of Facebook is that it allows people to bring together all their favourite web applications in one place, making the web easier to navigate.”

He predicted that Facebook would soon overtake emails as people’s “first-page site” - the first site people log on to when they arrive at work.