E-Mail 'Addiction' on the Rise

by Tim Stevens, posted Jul 30th 2008 at 10:06AM

Is e-mail dominating more and more of your day? You're not alone, according to the AOL Mail's annual survey, which is loaded with statistics showing that the use of e-mail has, in many cases, crossed over the line into dependence. 62 percent of people check their work e-mail accounts over the weekend, almost a half claim that they are "addicted" (up from 15 percent last year) and nearly one fifth say that they specifically choose vacation spots that provide access to the Internet, just so they can check their mail!

Some of the more interesting stats:

New Yorkers are the most frequent e-mail checkers
67 percent of people check e-mail in bed
15 percent check e-mail at church
One quarter check e-mail while on dates
Half check e-mail while driving

We confess to being guilty of a few of these, though haven't quite crossed the line that a surprising 60 percent of people indicate they have: checking e-mail in the bathroom. Limits, people! [Source: CrazyForEmail]

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Gerry314 @ Jul 31st 2008 7:20AM

E-mail addiction; come on. It's no different than waiting for snail mail as everyone did pre-internet. It's communication. People like to hear from others and to correspond with others. E-mail has expanded and quickened the process, but to call it an addiction, I disagree. It's simply that you can e-mail a friend across the planet in seconds and get a response as soon as they read it...so you have to check it frequently because it is possible. Before the internet, who recalls sending away for something or sending a letter to someone, and then running to your mail box every day to see if a response or the item came? This is no different. This is an ends to justification of Tim Stevens paycheck. He had to have something to print and it doesn't necessarily have to be accurate or of any value.

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Lance @ Jul 31st 2008 8:37AM

The only thing on the upswing is addiction to the word addiction. People need to take responsibilty for their own actions, not blame it on something "uncontrollable". There is a HUGE difference between being addicted to a substance that changes your physiological structure and being unwilling to say no to yourself. When exactly did we as a nation become such whiners?

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GCM @ Jul 31st 2008 8:50AM

How 'bout TEXTING???!!!! I think it's overcome the e-mail craze at this point!

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE???!!!!!

"-(

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Benjamin Wright @ Aug 1st 2008 2:44PM

Tim: Financial traders and other employees will be tempted to use their personal e-mail, IM and text message services to transact business. Firms are wise to insist that employees channel all business messages through a central archive so they can be stored under a record retention policy. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/04/reducing-volume-of-e-mail-archives.html

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