Writer Verlyn Klikenborg has (what to me is) a very amusing op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times about how the Internet has fostered connections that make him twitch.
Like me, Klikenborg doesn’t own a blackberry (I refuse. I simply refuse) but also like me, he has three daily phone numbers, two fax numbers and six working email addresses (if you count Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail, I have him beat by at least two email addresses.)
But what resonated with me is Klikenborg’s confession about his email addiction, which mirrors my problem exactly. I had no idea that my strange relationship with email could be experienced in exactly the same manner by somebody else. Here are the signs of email addiction, and I must admit I’m familiar with every one of them:
Do you tell your e-mail program to check for messages automatically every two minutes — and then disbelieve it when it comes up empty? Have you learned to hesitate before answering a new message so it doesn’t look as though you were hunched over the keyboard, waiting? Do you secretly think of lunch as a time for your inbox to fill up? But the clearest sign of e-mail addiction is simply to ask yourself, what is the longest you’ve gone without checking your e-mail in the past two months? Anything longer than a broken night’s sleep is good.
Cynthia Brumfield at 11:00 PM|Comments(0)
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