E-mail Addiction

E-mail addiction may just be one of a larger pantheon of Internet-related addictions (hello, texters), but this story from an AOL survey still rings some bells. Among the findings:

Fifty-nine percent of people emailing from portable devices are checking email in bed while in their pajamas; 53% in the bathroom; 37% are checking email while they drive; and 12% admit to checking email in church.

Is it wrong that it bothers me more that someone might be reading my e-mail in the bathroom than in church? If I know you, please don't read my e-mail in the bathroom. Does anyone know of any filters I can get to keep my e-mails from being readable in bathrooms?

So, anyway, any addicted e-mailers, texters, IMers, etcers in the room? Hands? (No need to raise them if you're reading this in the bathroom.) We're all here for you.

Offering a more serious (and more helpful) take on the issue of Christians and Internet abuse, Keith Plummer over at The Christian Mind offers some excellent insights and recommends an interesting-sounding book by Quentin Schultze called Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age.