More youngsters are now ditching the social media party

BENGALURU: A small but growing number of youngsters are deleting their social media accounts and shying away from installing these apps on their smartphones, even as India emerges as the largest open internet market in the world.

Indians downloaded about 4.8 billion applications in the first quarter of 2019, more than any other country in the world, according to data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, with TikTok, owned by Chinese startup ByteDance, being the most downloaded.

Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger were also in the top ten.