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NEW DELHI: Indian and Chinese users are more likely to make friends online than their counterparts globally, says a global survey of Internet users. Indians are also more likely to rekindle romantic relationships through the internet than other global users.
The Norton Online Living Report, commissioned by Internet security firm Symantec, surveyed 9,000 adults and kids in 12 different countries, including the US, UK, France, China, Japan, Brazil and India. E-mail was the most widely used application, preferred by 92% of the respondents to communicate with friends and family.
About 50% of those surveyed said they use social networking websites. As per the report, seven in 10 adults worldwide said the Internet has made their relationships better. The percentage was higher for India, with 90% of users saying their relationships had improved due to the internet.
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This post made me smile
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"….. I assume that many idioms are frozen in the late 1940s when the British left. So, when police arrested a gang who were stealing gas from cylinders they sold as full, it was reported in my morning paper that "sleuths nabbed neer-do-wells". A man who dressed in a burka in order to visit his girlfriend was "bashed up" when discovered.
There are also a few perculiarly Indian formations. The back of a building or rear of an aeroplane is usually referred to as "the backside" ("Is a backside seat acceptable, Mr Lawson?", to which the answer can anatomically only be "yes"). Near my hotel is a shop offering "gentlemens’ suitings and shirtings". The word "even" has been commandeered as a synonym for "also" as in "Even I need to go to the bank" for "I need to go to be bank, too". Even I’ve found myself saying this, it’s so common."
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"Technology like this can speed up the process of getting applications deployed across a number of platforms. That's something that's more critical than ever as we move forward with mobile web development. Today, there are just too many languages and platforms to code for and, in the future, there could be even more. So perhaps we shouldn't be focused just on native applications as the future of the mobile web after all. Maybe the future of the mobile web will just be the future of the web."
