http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/one-in-four-americans-take-their-email-to-bed-with-them/ Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:16:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/one-in-four-americans-take-their-email-to-bed-with-them/#comment-795931 Tony Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:32:16 +0000 http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/one-in-four-americans-take-their-email-to-bed-with-them#comment-795931 One in four admit to taking their laptop to bed with them to check email one last time before going to sleep, and a whopping 59% of people with portable email devices admit that they check their email the moment that a new message comes in. One in four admit to taking their laptop to bed with them to check email one last time before going to sleep, and a whopping 59% of people with portable email devices admit that they check their email the moment that a new message comes in.

]]> http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/one-in-four-americans-take-their-email-to-bed-with-them/#comment-145025 Jon Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:01:12 +0000 http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/one-in-four-americans-take-their-email-to-bed-with-them#comment-145025 Reading this, I am reminded of nothing so much as the Borg - dependant on the Hive for the reassurance that they exist. The irony is that all this constant contact is so often used to split attention between the incoming message on the device and whoever is in fornt of the user. A pity: intimacy and full attention to the person you're with is hard enough to achieve and now we are practicing how to avoid precisely that which we actually seek.... Reading this, I am reminded of nothing so much as the Borg - dependant on the Hive for the reassurance that they exist.
The irony is that all this constant contact is so often used to split attention between the incoming message on the device and whoever is in fornt of the user. A pity: intimacy and full attention to the person you’re with is hard enough to achieve and now we are practicing how to avoid precisely that which we actually seek….

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