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News Story by Juan Carlos Perez
MAY 30, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - U.S. residents are so hooked on e-mail that some check for messages in the bathroom, in church and while driving, a new survey sponsored by America Online Inc. has found.
The average e-mail user in the U.S. has two or three e-mail accounts and spends about an hour every day reading, sending and replying to messages, according to the survey, conducted by Opinion Research Corp.
E-mail dependency is so strong for 41% of survey respondents that they check their e-mail inbox right after getting out of bed in the morning. The average user checks his inbox five times a day, according to the survey, which polled 4,012 respondents at least 18 years old in the 20 largest U.S. cities.
About a fourth of respondents acknowledged being so e-mailholic that they can't go more than two or three days without checking for messages. That includes vacations, during which 60% of respondents admitted logging into their inbox.
Unsurprisingly, all that e-mail activity sometimes leads to regrets. Almost half of respondents -- 45% -- indicated they would like to have the ability to retrieve a message they have sent but that hasn't been read yet.
News Story by Juan Carlos Perez
MAY 30, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - U.S. residents are so hooked on e-mail that some check for messages in the bathroom, in church and while driving, a new survey sponsored by America Online Inc. has found.
The average e-mail user in the U.S. has two or three e-mail accounts and spends about an hour every day reading, sending and replying to messages, according to the survey, conducted by Opinion Research Corp.
E-mail dependency is so strong for 41% of survey respondents that they check their e-mail inbox right after getting out of bed in the morning. The average user checks his inbox five times a day, according to the survey, which polled 4,012 respondents at least 18 years old in the 20 largest U.S. cities.
About a fourth of respondents acknowledged being so e-mailholic that they can't go more than two or three days without checking for messages. That includes vacations, during which 60% of respondents admitted logging into their inbox.
Unsurprisingly, all that e-mail activity sometimes leads to regrets. Almost half of respondents -- 45% -- indicated they would like to have the ability to retrieve a message they have sent but that hasn't been read yet.
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