A recent research conducted on Facebook has revealed that an average Facebook user receives lot more than he gives on the world’s largest social networking site.

The report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project has unveiled that on an average, users receive more likes, comments and friend requests than they give on other profiles. The research took place in November 2010 when 269 Facebook users gave permission to Pew for using their account.

Selection of those 269 volunteers was a random exercise which was being conducted on telephone. The study researchers made some points on which they assessed all the accounts. They also made certain categories like power user and average user.

As per them, a power user is the one who does many other activities other than sharing photos, sending friend requests and applications to others. On the other side, an average user is one whose activities were limited to accepting friend requests, liking recent posts and liking tagged photos.

After assessing the accounts for a while, it was revealed that an average person was real hero in the eyes of public. As per the study researchers, major work was being done by power users, but more friendship requests and likes were being received by an average user.

In total, about 205 to 30% fell in the category of power users and rest were being termed as average users, who received more friend requests than they sent, got more likes on their comments than they did on others and got tagged in more photos than they did for others.

The study authors told about average users: “You keep getting all these wonderful positive rewards”.