Internet Pros Check Email Less Often
Found on Techdirt on Monday, 14 July 2008

Now comes a study noting that more experienced internet users tend to check their email less frequently than newer internet users. The folks behind the report suggest that experienced internet users have reached the point at which they don't want email controlling them any more -- but it makes you wonder if the real answer is that many are using other forms of communication instead of email, decreasing the importance of email.
Well, with all that spam, it's just no fun to use email anymore. You have to be really careful where you use your address; or live with a bunch of throw-away accounts which you drop if they get spammed too much. Even if you just give your address to friends, they might CC it or send you some "greeting cards". Putting that all aside, email is just slow. IM is better.