A social network, pop star and socialite top popularity lists. Stop us if you've heard this before.

YouTube, which rose from 7th most visited site in 2009 the 5th most visited in 2010, helps make up the 9.85% of all US internet visits that Google properties claim. While Facebook hasn’t surpassed total Google owned/controlled traffic yet, they aren’t too far off at 8.93%. Yahoo!, often seen as the big engine that couldn’t, still represents 8.12% of all US visits with their various properties including email, which is actually a more popular destination than the Yahoo! homepage.

What surprised us though, is actually the site that traded places with YouTube: MySpace. The site is down off of last year’s 5th place to number 7, but still ranking. Yes, we thought that everyone had abandoned the site with the strange new logo. Frankly, we were pretty sure the people running MySpace were abandoning ship when they seemingly threw in the towel and partnered with Facebook, but it looks like some of you just can’t say goodbye to sparkly glitter gifs and 2001-style clip art.

Speaking of sparkly, glittering things, silver covered magazine mover Kim Kardashian edged out Oprah (who does a pretty good job of moving magazines also) for the title of top searched personality. Rush Limbaugh, Miley Cyrus and Glenn Beck are numbers 3, 4, and 5 respectively. That sounds like the start of a party game where you have to put random words into a sentence that makes sense. We’ll let you know when we come up with one.

Moving on to musicians, butcher calendar girl Lady Gaga dominated searches and beat out the teenage endorsement dream that is Justin Bieber for number one music personality search. Eminem, Taylor Swift and late King of Pop Michael Jackson were 3, 4, and 5 respectively.

Though many people have sworn by Gmail since it first came out with 2GB of storage space, meaning that you’d never have to remember to delete emails from that one friend who always forwards crazy chain letters. Hotmail and Yahoo responded by offering bigger mailboxes, then Google put the competition to an end by offering unlimited space.

Still, changing email addresses can be enough of a pain that extra space isn’t worth the hassle. After a while, occasional email recipients get lumped into the same address book as mom and dad, who still have to be manually separated from work related emailers, and let’s not forget the alerts for the various local deals, sample sale sites and sales notices from any website you’ve ordered from in the past 5 years.

Some people pick up an extra address for a specific purpose, but after a while you have 5 different addresses to check in on and it all starts to become too much. Hotmail’s hoping that you’ll start to use their interface for all of your email addresses. {Mashable} Google and Yahoo have allowed you to manage multiple email addresses through their interfaces for a while now, but with 350 million users, Hotmail is hoping that users who’ve tried the other options still prefer to use their interface for management.

It’s easy to forget about email with social networking and the future of mobile always in the headlines, and not many widely adopted innovations. Still, email is the one application that almost anyone online checks on a daily basis.