Email Addiction Runs Rampant · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday June 1, 2005 @06:25AM 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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What's F5 the problem? by JohnGrahamCumming · 2005-06-01 06:33 · Score: 0, Troll

I really don't F5 the issue here F5. I like to check my F5 email regularly F5 because it's the only F5 interaction I get with F5 people. So I check F5 it about once every F5 minutes, whatever.