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E-Mail Deprivation Anxiety Has a Name: 'Discomgoogolation'

by Peter Mychalcewycz, posted Sep 2nd 2008 at 4:52PM

The Stress !!!!

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 "Discomgoogolation."

According to the report, the blood pressure and brain activity of those tested increased substantially when cut off from Internet access. The anxiety experienced was similar to that of a person about to take a test and in some cases equal to that of someone who was just fired. That sounds about right to us.

Some clinical psychologists are calling for Internet addiction to be recognized as a personality disorder.

We would offer commentary on this overwhelming techno-social shift, but we really need to check our e-mail.

Sorry. [From: DailyMail]

BlackBerrys and Cell Phones Turning Americans Into E-Mail Addicts

by Tom Conlon, posted Jul 26th 2007 at 9:23AM

The Great American E-Mail Addiction
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 results were surprising. Even though teens seem to be gravitating towards instant- and text-messaging as their primary form of communication, adults are e-mailing more than ever. One of the big reasons seems to be portable devices, since the survey revealed that the number of people checking their e-mail on portable devices (like BlackBerrys and iPhones) has more than doubled since 2004. The survey showed that the average e-mail user checks his or her e-mail five times a day and that 59 percent of those with said portable devices check every time a message arrives.

And that's just during the day: A whopping 43 percent of survey respondents bring their BlackBerrys or handhelds to bed with them, so they can check messages at night! Crazy. Even we don't do that here at Switched.

Meanwhile, the most e-mail addicted city in the country turns out to be Washington, D.C., followed closely by Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, and Houston. (Surprisingly, tech-centric city Seattle scores 7th in the rankings.)

In the coming days, Switched.com will bring you the full exclusive results of the survey. We'll be posting every day, so come back to this page to find out more. To kick things off, we present the following:

43% of E-Mail Users Sleep With Their Cell Phones
Step aside ham and cheese sandwich, there's a new midnight snack in town!

E-Mail Addiction: Battle of the Sexes!
Which sex do you think is more likely to refer to its inbox as 'The Chronic'?


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