AOL Boston Email Addiction Survey Results
AOL Mail has a new survey on email addiction across the country. Here are the Boston results:
44% say they are hooked on email
7% even hide checking email from family
87% watch their spelling and punctuation when typing emails
70% are irked by misspellings
23% have declared “email bankruptcy”, deleting all of their email messages to start anew, etc.
30% have gotten a new email address
62% checked their emails from the bathroom
68% in bed in their pajamas
76% in a restaurant
48% while driving
“The average email user in Boston checks personal email at work 3.6 times per day. Meanwhile, they also check work email nearly 3 times in a given weekend.”
Here’s the link to the AOL Boston email survey:
http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/survey/aol/en-us/boston.htm
Here’s the national results:
“The study of 4,000 users also showed people checking their email with regularity from the following unusual and perhaps inappropriate locales:
• In bed in their pajamas: 67%
• From the bathroom: 59%
• While driving: 50%
• In a bar or club: 39%
• In a business meeting: 38%
• During happy hour: 34%
• While on a date: 25%
• From church: 15% (up from 12% last year)
Info via Mashable:
http://mashable.com/2008/07/30/email-addiction/
Posted by Rich
