How many times a day you sneak into your email boxes?

well I agree it is essential these days for communication, but I sure know I don't fit on what you say as what its making us. I think you should speak for yourself. I practice discipline and control what I do.

I do not know who JOe Robinson is and hope he understand the people he's dealing with here esp. here on mylot ! I keep my brain box on all the time and check every time I pass it and answer a needed if I have time. I have a home to care for an husband who is an invalid and there are times when all I have to do is be online and be quiet so as to let hubby sleep. I've had apportunities to not have a computer and I can't wait to get to one or get the power back on so I can use one. IN answer to your question I check my email many,many times a day. thanks

Sneak in? Now let's see.. Considering that on an average day, the laptop is in front of me atleast for 5-6 hours during work, and for a few more at home after that and the fact that email boxes are open most of the time during those durations, i would say i do more than sneak in... I'm getting more informed all right, but i guess that's making me dumber and lazier by the day. Saving grace or an excuse if you can call it that, is that the number of emails i send out or recieve are few.

Hello Mimpi! This is a tricky question . You see with the advent of internet and emails, we have become largely dependent on emails. Now a days, almost everyone whom you come across either at a personal level or official level will ask for either your mobile number or for email ID or for both. Asking about email ID is like - the person is asking for your address. And if someone says that s/he does not have an email ID, s/he is looked with frown eyes. You are very right or say Joe Robinson is very right that too much dependence on emails could be problematic and we should restrict it for kids and for us, as well. Coming back to your main question - Whenever I am on-line, I check my mails first (official and personal, as well) and if it is day time and 5-6 hours have passed, I keep thinking - how many mails would have come in my mail box (don't laugh please.........lol!). It is equally true that sitting on computers for longer hours is reducing our physical activities and making an adverse impact on our health. Have a great day! Deepak

Not often enough I guess.LOL Im just not that connected to the internet 24/7. I dont avail of internet on my cellphone either so when Im offline, Im really offline. I would only get to go online at night or when Im just at home all day. A busy week would let me check email once a day for only a few minutes. But a free day or night that gives me the opportunity to be online hours on end, that would mean that I also check my email for hours on end.^_^ what I mean to say is that, my email account is the first thing that I open when I log in and it's also the last thing that I close before I shut down my computer. I have a permanent tab for it for easy access. Email is a part of the internet and I feel that if there's one thing that we need to regulate, it wouldnt be email use but our own internet hours. A time schedule for both kids and adults on internet usage could absolutely do wonders for a person's life. That's just what I think anyways.^_^

i just do it every time i feel like it or when somebody sends me an sms that i got an email. i have lots of other things to do and i don't check my email very often, not even everyday. sometimes, i get a thousand emails already and it takes time to sort them out... but i can never be a slave to the online master...

I used to check my email every now and then.. but nowadays, I just check it at least 2-3 times per day. I try to access it whenever I'm already free from everything, not being busy and if possible, when I have ample rest too. But whilst working sometimes I have the tendency to sneak and check out my email and that's the one that's a bit undisciplined for me.. need to control that for a bit.

Hello mimpi. I usually look at the inbox every time the alert on yahoo messenger appears. I have been using yahoo organizer for a couple of months now and it's solves most of the mails that i don't usually want to read right away.

Well, whenever i switch on my computer, i will usually check my email box first. If there is urgent emails that i need to reply, i will reply them first before i visit Mylot and other earning sites. Emails had been a very important tools for us to communicate in this modern world. I had been depending on my emails for communicate with my friends and family nowadays. So, i will always check my email box, whenever i switch on my computer.

Hi Mimpi, I never really liked writing by hand, I find it physically challenging and I do have a bad handwriting. And so when email was introduced you can say I was one of the happiest persons on earth. But I do agree with Joe Robinson, emails make us less creative, a little dumb, and somewhat lazy. After years and years of enjoying the benefits of communicating by email, I am slowly trying to go back to doing something with personal touch, like sending greeting cards (not e-cards), writing notes to my kids as a form a appreciation, and sending postcards to friends abroad. Now I still am into emails coz it is the most used form of communication in my workplace, so I do check mine as often as I can.

I never have to sneak into my email box because I'm at home alone with the kids during the day. That said, I believe that I check my email about once an hour during the course of a day. The reason that I check my email so frequently is because I don't like to let tons and tons of emails pile up on me. I would say that I get about an average of about three hundred emails during the course of an entire day.

Hi Mimpi, I sneak into my email boxes everyday before i start my work. i check it again during lunchtime and in the evening when i reach home. in the office my email is always open that i can check it anytime. for the kids they can only use the computer friday night until sunday morning. sunday after lunch they need to review their lessons, do their assignments with my assistance and be ready for mondays class.

WTH?? Am I Being PUNKED OR WHAT?! What KIND of "Mother-May-I" question is that???

I only check my mails when i know i will be having a mail that i have to read. Its not on daily or weekly basis. I just check my mail when i what to see my communications.

Lately due to life, Health issues, working, Church, etc. my time online a lot of the time is quite limited. So rarely am I checking my Email like I used too. I usually check it maybe 3-4 times a week and see if there is anything important I might have missed and then move on to other things. But there was a time this was one of my most important things to be doing for sure.

Hello mimpi1911, I only sneak into my email box twice or maybe thrice sometimes. I get used to check my email in the morning and night before I go to bed. At least I make sure I do it once a day if I am really busy.

Well, I am using outlook and I have programmed to automatically check my email from time to time. So when I turn on my computer, I also open my outlook. For as long as I do not turn off my computer, I will right away know if there is an email on my inbox. So this saves me the hassle of signing in from time to time to check for new emails.

I am guilty of time wasting too much as I come back to my computer many times during the day and check both of my regular email accounts. I usually try to go through most of the emails first thing in the morning and then again at night, but I usually end up back into them during the day as well. I did learn a few years a go that in order to be more productive with time that I should only be checking them twice daily and it is a good habit to get into. The exception to this rule is if you are waiting to hear back from somebody over something that may be urgent and you have no other way of contacting them.

I check my email box every time I see I have received emails. This habit depends on how important are emails for everyone in part. I keep my window open while working in the same time as my work depends on jobs received by email. It absolutely true that the internet and the computer in general transformed our life into a sedentary one, but we can alternate periods of staying at the computer with other activities such as walking, working in a garden or in the house, a hobby or sports.

Generally i log in two times a days one in the morning and one in the evening so no mails i keep pending for reply