E-Mail Deprivation Anxiety Has a Name: 'Discomgoogolation'
Apparently this whole Internet thing is really catching on.... A new British study has found that heavy Internet users often suffer from severe anxiety when not able to access the Web when and where they please. This does not qualify as news to anyone who has been sans e-mail for more than a day. What is news is the severity of the physiological fluctuation that accompanies ...
This past June, AOL conducted a survey of 4,025 Internet users to study the behavior of we humans and our relationship to e-mail. The survey covered everything from how many e-mail accounts people have, to how they feel when they're busted checking personal e-mail at work, to where they check e-mail on portable devices (church, the bathroom and from behind the wheel were all answers given). The ...









