#5 Online and Real World Identities Aren’t the Same.

Connecting online creates opportunities to stretch everyday boundaries and try out a new persona – but on the flip side it can lay the foundation for deception. How much can you trust what you read online?

Four of five believe that people have different online and offline identities. In India, this number is slightly higher at 87 percent

Over a third of global respondents felt that most people have very different online versus offline identities, while in India 40 percent of respondents have different online vs offline identities.

When asked about themselves, only 44 percent said their online identity was the same as their real world “offline” identity. In India, more than half (59 percent) said they have the same online and offline identities.

#4 Will Smartphones Replace Laptops at Workplace? 

In many parts of the world, Smartphones now rival laptops as the single most desired device by 18-30 year olds.  It is seen as the most versatile and the most compact.

If they had to choose only one device, a third of respondents preferred a Smartphone, while slightly more than a third favored laptops.  In India, the findings were consistent with the global average.

Smartphones which was rated twice as popular as desktop PC and three times as popular as Tablet have surpassed desktop computers as the preferred workplace device from a global perspective.