It seems like at least once every 3 months or so there is another report or study that hits us with the shocking news that really quite a few of us are way too obsessed with email, or that Blackberries / Treos / Smartphones of whatever flavor are responsible for driving us to some deeper level of email dementia.

Over at The Boy Genius Report they’ve got a piece on a recent bit of AOL research that covers this topic, and pinpoints some Top locales where this issue is prevalent. The part that caught my eye though was some of their numbers:

• 59% of Americans check their email in bed Just About Never
• 53% of Americans have checked their email in the bathroom Oops, guilty
• 37% of Americans check their email while they drive I can just barely drive while I drive
• 43% check email first thing in the morning Yeah
• 83% check email while on vacation Try not to, depends how good the vacation / how crap the network is where I’m at
• Average users check their email at least 5 times a day Try 500 and then we’re talking

I don’t live in any of the towns listed, but I thought I’d go ahead and add a small indication of my experience next to each of those eye-catching stats anyway (the colored italic text above). I know that Judie will be shocked by my driving admission – since I get the impression she is used to texting with one hand and one device, checking directions on LiveSearch in her other hand on another device, and making calls via BT with a third device while going 80 on rural highways!

I’m curious about the rest of you. Which of those numbers ring true for you with all of your PCs, laptops, mobile devices etc?

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