Email is also harmful to life and the environment

Harm of e-mail in daily life:

More than 3 years ago, Dr. Thomas Jackson of Loughborough University conducted a research project that showed that it takes an average of 64 seconds to reconstruct the thought stream after being interrupted by the use use email. That's why every 5 minutes of email use will take 8 hours and 30 minutes a week to relive what they have done just a moment ago. When there are many assumptions that email does not cause disruptions to people, because the email recipient has the right to decide whether or not to see, which mail to choose to read and answer. Contrary to that hypothesis, Dr. Jackson explained that users tend to respond as soon as they receive so the job will take an average of 1 minute and 44 seconds for each new message with a ratio of 70 % of mails answered within 6 seconds. This speed is 3 times faster than answering phone usage.

Karen Renaud, a lecturer at Glasgow University, Scotldand and colleagues at the University of West of Scotland discovered an interesting percentage of email users: the first number felt comfortable, the second number. feeling hard, the rest felt annoyed with stress. The group felt relaxed without letting emails put pressure on their lives. Renaud said: " They know how to deal with them in the best way a person needs to do. " The second group felt forced to handle the emails, but they also affirmed they could do well. this. Meanwhile, the third group felt that e-mail was making it difficult for them: " They bring stress and stress to create a multitude of health problems, " said Dr. Renaud.

The team working with Dr. Renaud discovered another parameter, while 64% of the email respondents said they checked their inbox twice an hour and 35% of them confirmed. For every 15 minutes they check once, there are those who do this more often - every 5 minutes look over the mailbox. For some people, email checking is not only a well-considered and well-executed activity, but also a mandatory task, they are clearly aware.

Tom Stafford, a lecturer at the University of Sheffield, UK and co-author of " Mind Hacks " believes that email users are also swept into a modern addiction like the way people are infected. in gambling games. Those are the most terrible habits. "The mechanism that triggers that addiction stems not only in winning every time you play, occasionally getting it, but also in unpredictable" prizes ". I found it interesting, but with the email there is something interesting, such as an invitation to go out or some interesting gossip, as I . take the prize " It's just that making it hard for us to refuse to check email, even if we just looked through it.

Harm of email with environment:

According to a study by the French Agency for Environmental and Energy Management (ADEME), every e-mail sent by users will generate 19 grams of CO ₂ causing adverse environmental impacts. Although the amount of emissions is small, with the number of billions of e-mail circulating on the Internet, it will contribute to the global phenomenon of greenhouse effect. " Sending an e-mail with attached images consumes more energy than we think, " said Alain Anglade, ADEME engineer.

(Reducing the number of outgoing mail will contribute to protecting the environment)

When an e-mail from the computer sender to the recipient, it will be copied dozens of times by mail servers and relay servers. Each time copying, the amount of electricity consumed increases. According to ADEME calculations, an office worker in France sends a 1 MB e-mail, the recipient will read this e-mail on the computer screen for about 5 minutes and store the information for a year.

The result of this process produces 19 grams of CO2. When the recipient delivers this information to others, CO ₂ will continue to increase. Not to mention when printed e-mail will generate more emissions from the heat of the printer, ink and printing paper.

ADEME also gives advice to Internet users to minimize the harmful effects of e-mail. Accordingly, you should try to read the content on the computer, try not to print e-mail and reduce sending e-mail if not necessary.

Users can also limit the size of attachments and use free file compression software like 7zip, Zipgenius or Winzip. If 10% reduction in email sent will reduce one ton of CO ₂ emissions in a year, ADEME experts said.