This document provides statistics and information about social networking sites in India and worldwide. Some key points:
- Social networks allow people to build online communities around shared interests and interact through sharing information, content, and communicating. However, monetization has been a challenge for the industry.
- In India, 89% of 15-20 year olds access social media daily and 60% spend at least 30 minutes daily. Worldwide, 22% of online time is spent on social networks.
- The top social networks in India by unique visitors in July 2016 were Facebook with 20.8 million, Orkut with 19.8 million, and Bharatstudent.com with 4.4 million.
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