You might as well face it, the U.S. is addicted to email.
In a recent study compiled by Opinion Research Corp., the chasm between casual and nonstop emailers appears to have grown. Here are some of the important numbers from the study:
- Forty-one percent of those polled check email immediately upon rising in the morning.
- Roughly 25 percent cannot go more than a day or two without checking email.
- Nearly half (45 percent) would like the opportunity to retract a message that hasn't been read yet.
The Computer World article linked above has a few ideas about how to not get too addicted to email, like setting a curfew or create a quota of emails sent. But as soon as you start treating each email like a cloned model, or better yet, start making Pepsi commercials, then you know you've stepped over the line.
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