In a study last year, Dr Thomas Jackson of Loughborough University, England, found that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email (bit.ly/email2). So people who check their email every five minutes waste 81/2hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments before. … Checking email can be as addictive as gambling say experts.
Email becomes a dangerous distraction, by Suw Charman-Anderson
Totally agree!
Oct 7th, 2008 / 3:58 pm
What about checking blog’s
Oct 7th, 2008 / 7:36 pm
LOL I’ll attest to that! Though with gtalk I don’t have to check as often since it checks for me!
OT: Tina, I love the new graphic (for Swissmiss)!
Oct 7th, 2008 / 9:25 pm
I guess that’s why they call them crackberries. Personally i’ve avoided getting one thus far… which results in my sitting at home in front of the computer.
doh!
Oct 7th, 2008 / 10:36 pm
This is so true!!
Oh wait, I’ve an email…
Oct 8th, 2008 / 9:37 am
I’d totally believe that! I definitely lose focus when I see my little (1) pop-up in my minimized gmail account and there’s someone at my desk so I can’t check it right then. I’m definitely an email junkie.
Anne
Oct 9th, 2008 / 2:52 pm