http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/22/text.iq/index.html
QuoteHalf of all workers respond to an e-mail within 60 minutes of receiving one
I'd like to meet these people. I normally have to wait days, unless the person is somebody who works at their desk.
Maybe they to busy smoking pot to repsond
BS.
I think it's fairly understable, actually. I find that email and instant messaging is very VERY distracting when I try to work. I turn off Gaim and monitor my important email account (in case something horrible happens) when I study or do homework. Otherwise, I get nothing done. I suppose that's along the same line as drug abuse.
The article is dumb.
"He found the IQ of those who tried to juggle messages and work fell by 10 points -- the equivalent to missing a whole night's sleep and more than double the 4-point fall seen after smoking marijuana."
Hey, I'll trade you 10 IQ points for a good night's sleep. (What? IQ points don't exist. Stop making stuff up.)
Read that today. I hate text messaging so im ok there.
I try to get as far away as my comp when I'm doing homework cause I find IMs and chatting too distractive.
See, I'm doing Computer Science, my homework involves programming...
But I tend to drag my other laptop somewhere internetless :)