A new Facebook-related report, released by the Pew Internet and American Life project on Friday, has revealed that most of the users of the popular social network get more from the site than they put into it --- an apparent reason behind their frequent visits to the site!

The new Pew report, based on a survey of the Facebook behavior of 269 adults, chiefly highlights that the typical Facebook users make friend requests less often, show their liking for fewer items, and make less frequents comments as compared to their friends.

In more specific terms, the report – titles “Why Most Facebook Users Get More Than They Give” - revealed that while 40 percent of the surveyed Facebook users made a friend request; 63 percent of them received at least one friend request. In addition, though only about 12 percent of the users surveyed had tagged a friend in a photo; 35 percent of them had themselves been tagged by a friend.

It was also found that while each of the users in the Pew survey had made 14 clicks, on an average, on the "like" button next to a friend's content; the ‘like’ of his or her own content by friends average almost 20 times.

Commenting on the findings of the survey, the report’s lead author Keith Hampton - a professor at Rutgers – said: “There is this 20% to 30% who are extremely active who are giving more than they are getting, and they are so active they are making up for feeding everyone extra stuff.”