]> http://allyourtech.com/content/taxonomy/term/65/0 en http://allyourtech.com/content/news/01_06_2005_email_addiction_said_to_run_rampant.php <p>Are you addicted to email? According to the <a href="http://www.opinionresearch.com/">Opinion Research Corporation</a>, the odds are pretty good that you are.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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%).</p> <p>Just how addicted are the email-dependent among us? So heavily that one quarter of respondents <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,102131,00.html">won't go more than two or three days without it</a>. Of course, by those standards, most Americans must be addicted to work, sex, and TV as well.</p> Geek Culture News Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:49:51 -0400