What does this say about us?
Well, the headline says some of us are e-mail addicted.
Half of Britons could not exist without e-mail – with 30 or 40-somethings more addicted than teens, a survey finds.
Fifty per cent of 25 to 34-year-olds told ICM researchers they would not be able to carry on without e-mail.
What does that mean, not able to carry on? And I thought bloggers were bad…
More women than men – 41% compared with 38% – said they would be lost without access to their inbox.
Chief executive of Nasstar, Charles Black, said: “The first wave was the mobile phone, and many of us would admit we rely on our mobile and can’t remember how we ever survived without it.
You hear that – or say it – all the time. But it’s true for those of us who use a mobile phone.
This is one of those goofy summer stories that isn’t really a story, but a cultural check on how we’re doing.
We’re doing okay, as long as we’re connected…eh?
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Funny, I was just pondering yesterday how well the human race got along without electricity and running water — for millenia — and yet after only a hundred or so years, we can not survive without it for even short periods of time. I forgot about e-mail and electronics.
Though I did discover that surviving without regular access to e-mail and the internet is do-able. It was actually forced upon me 18 months ago, when my home computer imploded unceremoniously one night. I have yet to be able to afford to get a new one for varieties of reasons, but after a couple of weeks of actual physical pain and something that resembled the DT’s, I finally got over it. Thanks to the public library terminals, I can check my e-mails, but I find I’m much less stressed and better-rested for not having that 24/7 access.