Does this apply to POnyfans?

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:02 pm

Checking email can be as addictive as gambling say experts.

Back in the early 1990s, email was a privilege granted only to those who could prove they needed it. Now it has turned into a nuisance that's costing companies millions. We may feel that we have it under control, but not only do we check email more often than we realise, but the interruptions are more detrimental than was previously thought.
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 (post on Ponyfans) every five minutes waste 81/2hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments before.

It had been assumed that email doesn't cause interruptions because the recipient chooses when to check for and respond to email (bit.ly/email3). But Dr Jackson found that people tend to respond to email as it arrives, taking an average of only one minute and 44 seconds to act upon a new email notification; 70% of alerts got a reaction within six seconds. That's faster than letting the phone ring three times.

Added to this is the time people spend with their inbox. A July 2006 study by ClearContext, an email management tools vendor, surveyed 250 users and discovered that 56% spent more than two hours a day in their inbox (bit.ly/email4). Most felt they got too much email - by January 2008, 38% of respondents received more than 100 emails a day - and that it stopped them from doing other things.

J.T.supporta · Post by **J.T.supporta** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:06 pm

i stopped checking my email last month. so i check ponyfans every 30 seconds

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:12 pm

I just have people send me messages through PF

ThadFilms · Post by **ThadFilms** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:44 pm

The answer to the subject heading to this thread is YES.

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:49 pm

ThadFilms wrote:The answer to the subject heading to this thread is YES.

I concur

ThadFilms · Post by **ThadFilms** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:00 pm

Why didn't I concur? - Catch Me If You Can

I think PF is worse, though.

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:05 pm

ThadFilms wrote:Why didn't I concur? - Catch Me If You Can

I think PF is worse, though.

Oh by far - I can stall email but have to see what MM65 or JT wrote

ThadFilms · Post by **ThadFilms** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:18 pm

smupony94 wrote:
ThadFilms wrote:Why didn't I concur? - Catch Me If You Can

I think PF is worse, though.
Oh by far - I can stall email but have to see what MM65 or JT wrote

Truly, I can't breath until I know exactly where they stand on the truly important issues of our era.... like what shirts the coaches are wearing on game day.

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:31 pm

Or what new job an alum has just started

ThadFilms · Post by **ThadFilms** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:37 pm

Seriously, and I just have to know what new picture you've added to the [deleted] thread, really my life is incomplete without it.

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:46 pm

http://www.ponyfans.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=34571

Post by **SmooPower** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:27 pm

If you aren't posting on PonyFans then SMU won't know what it needs to do to get better.

ThadFilms · Post by **ThadFilms** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:39 pm

Seriously, I know that Orsini anxiously anticipates my input. Especially on issues pertaining to my recipe for flan or whether or not I'm going to be watching TV tonight.

that's great raplh · Post by **that's great raplh** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:11 pm

there are some enablers on this board

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:19 pm

that's great raplh wrote:there are some enablers on this board

I constantly check to see if Muffie will break her vow of silence