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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:12:54 -0500
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The Telegraph
Recovery programme for email addicts
By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:32am GMT 21/02/2007
Alcoholics have a 12-step programme to tackle their addiction, drug addicts
too, and now there is one for those addicted to email.
Forget the mantra "I am so and so and I am an alcoholic", the new programme
will have people admitting that email is managing them rather than the
other way round, and will help them to tackle their obsession for reading
or replying to emails on holiday, in the car and even in the bathroom.
A life coach for business executives in America devised the plan for cases
such as a golfer who checked his BlackBerry after every shot and lost a
potential client who thought he was a socially-inept obsessive. Marsha Egan
said email misuse could cost businesses millions of pounds in lost
productivity.
One of her clients could not walk by a computer - her own or anyone else's
- without checking for messages. Another had 3,600 emails in his inbox.
Others wait for emails and send themselves a message if one hasn't shown up
for several minutes, she claimed.
Research by King's College London says addiction to email is doubly
worrying because such technology depletes cognitive abilities more rapidly
than drugs.
Email users suffered a 10 per cent drop in IQ scores, more than twice the
fall recorded by marijuana users.
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experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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R. A. Hettinga
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
