US Facebook users spend 40 minutes each day on the social network

Fans of social networking in the US really like to spend their time on Facebook. New statistics showing the usage of the site have turned up and show that the average American spends 40 minutes each day using the site. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also said that the 40 minutes spent on the social network each day by most Americans accounts for one in five minutes spent on mobile in the US.

Overall, in the US, Zuckerberg says that people spend nine hours a day interacting with digital media on TV, on the phone, and via a PC. Facebook currently has 204 million monthly users in the US and Canada.

Facebook is also hosting Pages for 30 million businesses and has 1.5 million advertisers. There are also reportedly hundreds of apps that use the Facebook deep-linking standard called App Links.