The Internet has seen the mushrooming of Social Networking sites with max users trying to make new friends and renewing old relationships. Norton Online Living Report has carried out a survey on online behaviour of people. The survey indicates that Chinese and Indians are most likely to make friends online.

86 percent of Indians and Chinese were likely to make friends online. Brazil followed closely with 82 percent. The least likely were Japanese and the French with 38 and 32 percent.

Symantec Country Sales Manager (India - Consumer Products and Solutions) Gaurav Kanwal said “In India, we have witnessed a frenzy of online activity via social networking—from rediscovering cousins across the world, to virtually ‘friending’ friends and acquaintances and even rekindling old flames,”

It was found that the Internet has been instrumental in rekindling old relationships. Another trend observed was that people were more likely to broach difficult topics on the Internet rather than in person.