US Residents Email Junkies
A new survey sponsored by America Online shows US residents to be email junkies:
41% check their email immediately after waking up (I usually go to the bathroom and make coffee first)
The average user has 2-3 accounts (yup, that's about right, I've got three primary ones)
The average user checks email 5 times a day (if I'm in email all day, does that count as only once?)
The average user spends an hour a day with email (wonder how that compares to heroin junkies?? I wish I could spend only an hour a day, but I'd never finish my email!)
And the most email addicted cities are: Miami/Fort Lauderdale, San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York and Houston (I never would have guessed. Shouldn't Durham New Hampshire be on the list?)
I'm NOT alone!!
Hmmm, whatever happened to the term "Internet Addiction??" And why can't I get the 70s hit by The Tubes "White Punks on Dope" out of my mind ??
41% check their email immediately after waking up (I usually go to the bathroom and make coffee first)
The average user has 2-3 accounts (yup, that's about right, I've got three primary ones)
The average user checks email 5 times a day (if I'm in email all day, does that count as only once?)
The average user spends an hour a day with email (wonder how that compares to heroin junkies?? I wish I could spend only an hour a day, but I'd never finish my email!)
And the most email addicted cities are: Miami/Fort Lauderdale, San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York and Houston (I never would have guessed. Shouldn't Durham New Hampshire be on the list?)
I'm NOT alone!!
Hmmm, whatever happened to the term "Internet Addiction??" And why can't I get the 70s hit by The Tubes "White Punks on Dope" out of my mind ??
posted by Ted Demopoulos at 12:19 AM
Comments on "US Residents Email Junkies"
-
Anonymous said ... (Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:58:00 PM) :
-
Ted Demopoulos said ... (Thursday, June 02, 2005 12:31:00 AM) :
post a commentTed,
You said in a recent talk I heard that according to your wife, you check your email more often than you go to the toilet! I know you drink a lot of coffee and an occasional beer, so that is extremely often.
Ever go "cold turkey?"
Frank Falstaff
Hi Frank,
I think you sat in the front left and asked a couple of early questions and helped get everyone else really engaged?
I occasionally skip a day of email, although rarely, but a few years ago I took a sabbatical in New Zealand and didn't read email for about 2 months.
Every once in a great while I leave for the weekend without a laptop and don't check email - it's a healthy thing when I do it!
Ted