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Email Addiction Runs Rampant

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i'd-read-the-article-but-I-gotta-read-my-email-first dept.

Rollie Hawk writes "Are you addicted to email? According to the Opinion Research Corporation, the odds are pretty good that you are. Their study of 4,012 adults in the twenty largest U.S. cities found that 41% of respondents start the day by checking their email. On the average, respondents admitted to checking their email five times a day. Respondents also mentioned email features they wish were available. Examples included the ability to retract unread messages (45%) and a way to track the forwarding of their own email (43%). Just how addicted are the email-dependent among us? So heavily that one quarter of respondents won't go more than two or three days without it. Of course, by those standards, most Americans must be addicted to work, sex, and TV as well."

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  1. Email? Try Slashdot! by uberdave · · Score: 4, Funny

    I may check my email 5 times a day, but I check Slashdot 20 or 30 times a day.

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  2. Re:Sooo.... by Shky · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Daily Routine" is hardly a good buzzword..

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  3. Re:I can't check my email! by nocomment · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm also addicted to putting on clothes, showering, brushing my teeth, and scratching my balls. I won't go 3 days without doing any of those.

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  4. Typical /. response is... by prisoner-of-enigma · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course, by those standards, most Americans must be addicted to work, sex, and TV as well.

    What is this "sex" thing you speak of? I can find no reference to it in any of my emails.

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    1. Re:Typical /. response is... by tedhiltonhead · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wow, I want to use *your* anti-spam filter!

  5. Re:Sooo.... by StalinsNotDead · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess I need professional help.

    Then you're just enabling someone else's work addiction. Have you no conscience?

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