Social Networking Shocker: With 132 Million Users Worldwide and 153% Growth in One Year, Facebook Leaps to #1.

Tech Crunch is reporting some shocking new figures from Comscore on the social networking boom. Shocking, that is, if you’re MySpace, limping along at a mere 3% growth last year. To be fair, MySpace’s significant site re-design did not launch till June 18th, well after the close of the study. The positive reception to its cleaner, less-cluttered look and feel may improve growth for the formerly burgeoning site.

Other big jumps in global growth include Hi5 at 100% — good news for new Director of Communications hire, popular v-logger and social networking pro Adriana Gascoigne. Surprisingly, early social media pioneer, Friendster, grew by 50% while Bebo and Orkut showed improvement as well, with 32% and 41% respectively.