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Better Living Through Technology A recent Gallup poll of e-mail users finds that more than nine in ten say that both e-mail (97 percent) and the Internet (96 percent) have made their lives better. The typical e-mail user is on the Internet seven to eight hours each week, and 37 percent indicate they use it more than 10 hours per week. Nine in ten use e-mail at home and more than eight in ten use it at work. Gallup reports that there are very few differences in the amount of time spent on the Internet by gender or age, though the heaviest users of the Internet -- those online 40 hours or more per week -- are usually male or below the age of 50. A majority (52 percent) of e-mail users says that sending and receiving e-mail is their most common online activity. Thirty-two percent spend most of their time online searching the Internet for information on topics that interest them. Fifty-three percent use e-mail both at work and at home, and 76 percent have more than one e-mail address. Ninety percent of e-mail users say they use e-mail at home, and 83 percent use it at work. Fifty-three percent use e-mail at both places, and most have more than one e-mail address (23 percent have only one). Overall, 33 percent have two unique e-mail addresses, 14 percent have three, 7 percent have four, and 22 percent have five or more. For more information, go to: Copyright © 2001, Association for Interactive Media. Permission is granted to copy and distribute freely provided that this section is included in full. |
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