According to a new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project, even though the use of Facebook is pervasive in the US, Facebook users have been taking weeks-long breaks from the social network time and again, due to different reasons.

The Pew report, based on the findings of a survey involving more than 1,000 adults, has revealed that nearly 61 percent of the present Facebook users have, at some point of time, taken extended breaks from the social network, which reportedly has 1.06 billion worldwide users who log on to the network at least once a month.

Going by the statistics shared by Pew in the report, 21 percent of the Facebook users who have take a break from the social networking site said that they were `too busy' to visit the site; while 10 percent said that their break was prompted by a `lack of interest' in the site.

Among the other reasons for taking a break from Facebook, 9 percent of the users said that `too much drama' had led them to temporarily depart from the site; and 8 percent users said that they had been `spending too much time' on it.

The report also revealed that some Facebook users had apparently left Facebook for good; with 7 percent of the Internet users saying that though they were active users of the social network at one point, they no longer check into the site now.