#7 The Apps Revolution

Nearly 84 percent of the Gen Y respondents in India said mobile applications are important to their daily lives compared to the global average of 70 percent.

More than half (62 percent) respondents from India said they mainly use mobile applications for games and entertainment, while 33 percent of them mainly use them for work. However, of all those apps being downloaded daily from the app stores, a surprisingly low number are actually used on a regular basis.

Globally, the majority of Gen Y respondents (60 percent) report using fewer than 10 Smartphone apps regularly and only one in five (20 percent) of respondents said they use 10 to 25 apps regularly.

In India, 64% percent of respondents use fewer than 10 Smartphone apps regularly and 32 percent of respondents use 10 to 25 apps regularly.

#6 Online Friendship Versus In-Person

Forty percent spend more time online with friends than socializing in person. In India, the number is above the global average and stands at 56 percent.

Two-thirds of global respondents said they spend an equal amount or more time socializing online with friends than they do in person.  In India, this percentage is 83

There’s a gender difference: 38 percent of men worldwide spend more time in-person than online, versus 29 percent of women.