The number of registered users has grown to 29 million.
But, as the number of Net users has grown, so has the volume of spam.
However, even with the back-to-back monthly declines, Independent.co.uk's number of unique users has grown by 27% since July last year.
The use of data by smartphone users has grown 89 percent, from 230 megabytes (MB) in the first quarter of 2010 to 435 MB in the first quarter of 2011, according to a Nielsen study.
A new generation of Web users has grown increasingly adept at finding what it wants online and is less reliant on portals for guidance.
WhatsApp, the leader of the pack, alone has 700m a big reason why Facebook last year paid $22 billion for the firm, despite continuing to develop its own Messenger app.As the number of users has grown, specialised versions of messaging apps have emerged.
Because the universe of Windows users has grown, Mr. Ballmer predicted that sales of Windows Vista in the first three months would be five times the early sales of Windows 95, introduced in 1995, and double the sales of Windows XP, shipped in 2001.
The service, which has around 300,000 users, has grown rapidly in recent months.
Since August 2009, Conduit claims the number of Web publishers that have more than one million users has grown from 1 to more than 40 in May 2010.
But as the number of groups available to Facebook users has grown, it's become harder to keep up with those you interact with.
