Orkut has surpassed Facebook to become the market leader in social networking in India. This is against the world trend where Facebook has got bigger customer-base than Orkut, said comScore, an Internet audience measurement firm.     

As per the report, Facebook managed to be the top performer in eight out of 12 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The data is for the month of February. Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Vietnam, are the countries where Facebook is sitting undisputed on the top position.

India has performed against the tide and Orkut continues to get more users than any other site. The report also revealed that Indians are not very eager to use social networking. They spend less time browsing the sites against the world average. India is placed on the ninth position in terms of usage.

The report also showed that Philippines, Indonesia and Australia showed the highest level of penetration. It showed that 50.8 per cent of the total population in the Asia Pacific region visited social sites during February. India saw 60.3 per cent of its online population visiting the social networking sites.