Digital Addiction: Checking Email and Messages all the Time

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Tags: attention economy, email, focus, screen time, text message

Last update: August 26, 2024

Published on: January 1, 2022

Rescue Time App reported that their average user checks email or an instant messenger every six minutes. More than a third do it every three minutes or less.

Rescue Time App reported that their average user checks email or an instant messenger every six minutes. More than a third do it every three minutes or less.
Rescue Time App – Blog

The habit of constantly accessing the cell phone and leaving notifications activated destroys people’s ability to focus, compromising productivity and quality of life.

Learn more about overcoming digital addiction in the post Living Without WhatsApp and Telegram: Increase Your Productivity and Life Quality by Deleting These Apps.

Notes

Source: Communication Overload: Our research shows most workers can’t go 6 minutes without checking email or IM

Published on my blog in Portuguese on November 27, 2021: Vício Digital: Checando emails e mensagens o tempo inteiro.

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Ana Cecilia is a professor at UFMG University in Brazil. She researches inclusive management and ICT for museums, libraries, and archives. Ana lives in Belo Horizonte with her husband, Alberto, and their two children. She loves reading, drawing, hiking, and travelling.