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Honestly, what is it?
You check your email 80 times a day.
What Fing email are you waiting for? I check so often but what for…
Are you waiting on an email from God:) I am not saying checking email is a bad thing. Frankly, I love checking my email and knowing that someone else thought of me. Heck, even with spam, at least someone wants me. I do wonder why I check it so often.
Why do we check our emails so often?
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35 Responses to “What are you waiting for?”
June 15th, 2007
9:35 am
I’m waiting for the email that gives me an excuse to not do whatever I am procrastinating.
A couple years ago, I switched from letting my mail app check every minute, to every five, then ten, now fifteen. I still often check manually, but I can tell you email feels just as nice and fresh when it’s been sitting on a server for a few minutes.
June 15th, 2007
9:36 am
I use a firefox(flock) extension that checks it for me…does that still count? It checks every 5 minutes.
June 15th, 2007
9:46 am
It’s a Pavlov Dog thing. You hear the ding of the e-mail and it just could be the one that changes your life, or so you think. So far has not happen to me yet
I have gotten better by setting my e-mail polling to every three hours instead of evey five minutes. I still cheat but at least I am not dropping what I do every time I hear the ding!
June 15th, 2007
10:02 am
I think it’s like smoking: something to do with your hands. It’s a nervous habit. Like when I’m even remotely unoccupied, I pull out my blackberry and stare blankly at it. Not for anything in particular, but just because it’s something to do with my hands. I don’t smoke, btw.
June 15th, 2007
10:14 am
I think it’s rather simple, actually: because we can.
June 15th, 2007
10:37 am
I am notified on my phone when I get mail, is that checking? Sounds more like my mail is checking with me.
Looking at it that way, it’s been years since I last checked my mail.
June 15th, 2007
11:01 am
Great, so I am not the only one who does this. Thanks Noah, it is comforting to know that you are as obsessive compulsive as I am :-). I think Robert said it well, it is a Pavlov Dog condition.
I am the same way about snail mail, I get so excited to go and check the mail, I just love the fact that people send me things, makes me feel good!
Will
June 15th, 2007
11:35 am
I think this happens in the Bay Area quite a bit because there is a real fear of missing out on an important piece of info sent via email. I find that I check email constantly but only tend to reply at fixed intervals — most emails can wait until later for a response.
June 15th, 2007
11:36 am
[...] back of the post yesterday reminding you of it for today, so that’s no good. I read a post on Noah’s blog that sparked some thoughts in my head, but I would not want to copy him and post something [...]
June 15th, 2007
11:48 am
Mindhacks had a great article on this a while back:
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2006/09/why_email_is_addicti.html
The theory is that when you do get those occasional emails that make you happy for one reason or another, it gives your brain a reason to search that much harder the next time. All that spam, the extra tasks from your boss, and the annoying pictures of people’s families that you don’t care about actually make the occasional winner more valuable and cause the behavior to be more rewarding.
Me, I check all day because my boss says I have to!
June 15th, 2007
12:10 pm
It’s like you said, to feel important or wanted ;). I have to admit I think that’s what is compelling about the way Bloglines and Google Reader is set up (as opposed to MyYahoo). They user the mail metaphor and apply it to Blog Reading, forcing people to feel that they are wanted or so important cause they have so many blogs to read!
Who thought reading was so stressful!
June 15th, 2007
12:13 pm
I spend my day matching candidates and clients….so I am always waiting for “the one” of either. I actually press “send receive” often. Thanks for making me realize this…. LOL.
Christie
June 15th, 2007
12:18 pm
hey noah,
when the email from god does finally reach me, we’ll see who has the last laugh then. good topic and good point.
June 15th, 2007
1:27 pm
Email made me OCD. f’n email…
June 15th, 2007
2:33 pm
I ask girls out via e-mail… that is why I check my e-mail 80 times a day.
June 15th, 2007
3:55 pm
i’m just waiting for an email from noah - those always make my day
haha
June 15th, 2007
3:59 pm
Noah is touched and going to send you each 30 days a day from now on.
June 15th, 2007
9:43 pm
[...] answer to Noah’s question – I rarely ever check email. Instead…I listen. The beautiful buzz of my Blackberry has replaced [...]
June 16th, 2007
10:12 am
Gmail - Inbox (1)…..it’s like a opening up a present
June 16th, 2007
11:22 am
I just simple like to keep the tab showing ” Gmail ” with no # next to it..
June 16th, 2007
2:33 pm
for that email that could change everything
June 16th, 2007
4:14 pm
I’m waiting for any sign that my inbox has achieved self awareness.
June 16th, 2007
9:20 pm
I love to check my emails to see if I got yet another money making post approved
And of course not waiting for an email of god, but from anybody else having the same amount of love to offer
June 17th, 2007
12:42 pm
Noah,
I’m just hoping that my day will get better… another post on okdork!
June 17th, 2007
1:58 pm
small, frequent, repeated stimulus-response… excellent for addiction.
check for email, open email, get reinforcement. rinse, repeat.
mindless, but very addictive.
June 17th, 2007
2:09 pm
Ooo good.. i do no longer feel myself like a nerd.
I check my mail each mmm 7 mins.
June 18th, 2007
10:11 am
Even though gmail uses AJAX……but I still keep clicking on inbox to see if new mail has arrived. The effects of Ajax is still slower than clicking manually.
I am an internet/email hog. I am waiting for that piece of mail that makes my day.
June 18th, 2007
2:42 pm
Some of us are just popular, Noah. We like to see how much our fans adore us by constantly checking email.
And some of us just think we’re popular and wait anxiously for others to help us prove it…
June 19th, 2007
5:56 am
I love the reference to Pavlov’s dogs. Such a good way of describing it.
I guess for me, if I have lots of time to kill that results in compulsive email checking, I guess I am so bored that I am looking for some sort of email that will change the overall feel of my day. Some exciting news perhaps or another bored friend who wants to start a session of email ping pong.
June 19th, 2007
8:49 am
Since I ventured into Internet Marketing I’m checking my mail for PayPal notifications every 5 minutes.
It’s frustrating because there’s nothing there *sulks in the deepest, darkest, most soul-blackening corner of the universe*
Then again getting those 3 word emails from the girlfriend at unexpected times can be quite refreshing.
June 19th, 2007
3:56 pm
Well… for the email that tells me I’ve inherited or won 10 mil and I needn’t work anymore?
But I dun check 80 times… just maybe 3.
June 20th, 2007
12:57 pm
noah, i’m obviously waiting for an email.. from you
June 23rd, 2007
10:32 am
Nope, I don’t think I check my email 80 times a day. 800 times will be closer to the truth.
July 26th, 2007
11:27 am
I suspect the motivation to check email is closely related to the motivation to check for comments on a blog … though I don’t think receiving email is quite as orgasmic as receiving blog comments.
August 19th, 2007
9:17 am
Someone stated this already…but checking email keeps the feeling of “what am I missing out on” in check. I can’t tell you how excited I am to get MSNBC Breaking News emails stating that Brittney and Kevin have split and Paris is in jail (these really did come through–was this Breaking News???).
Do we always need to be ‘connected’? I have a wireless enabled PDA, so I can search for wi-fi and check email whenever I want. However, I’ve been checking into upgrading to a Treo/Blackberry. Someone tell me why I shouldn’t, please. The obsession continues…
I recently turned off my work email notifier so I don’t have the pop-up window show, which distracts me from what I’m doing. However, I still have the gmail notifier enabled…that I can’t turn off. I’ll make exceptions for interuptions for my personal email.
I may need to start looking for a support group-sad!
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