Alphabet Soup

88% watch their spelling and punctuation when typing emails. Two-thirds (66%) are irked by misspellings but 73% excuse the errors when the emails come from a mobile device, like a BlackBerry®.

In the Email Poor-house

Nearly 23% of email users have either declared “email bankruptcy,” deleting all of their email messages to start anew, or are seriously considering doing so.

24% have gotten a new email address to start fresh with a new inbox or are thinking about it. It’s no surprise then that the average Chicagoan has 2.5 email accounts. It’s easy to get a new email address these days too, just visit My eAddress for a new one of your own.

I’ll Have the Cheesecake, Just Let Me Finish this Last Email

Nearly two-thirds (65%) of Windy City email users say they’ve checked their email from the bathroom. Other popular email spots include in bed in their pajamas (59%), in a restaurant (65%), while driving (47%), while on a date (12%), at happy hour (18%) and from church (18%).

Email Crushing

7% have either asked someone out on a date or broken up over email. Meanwhile, 14% have used email to share bad news and 3% have even quit their job by email.

Personal Email at Work & Work Email on the Weekends

The average email user in Chicago checks personal email at work 3.4 times per day. Meanwhile, they also check work email nearly 3 times in a given weekend.

16% plan vacations based on where they know they can access email, and 30% say they feel obligated to check work email while on a break from the office.

Time to Wake Up, Time to Check Email

Over one in five (22%) Chicagoans check their email as soon as they wake up and 14% check email right after dinner. 34% even check their email in the middle of the night and 47% of mobile email users keep their mobile device or BlackBerry® on the nightstand so they can hear the chime of a new email arriving in their inbox.

Mobile Madness

One in ten (9%) email users check their email from a mobile device or cell phone. In fact, 53% of these users say they upgraded to a new cell phone in the last year because they wanted to get email while on-the-go. Want to get mobile email on your phone? Just click here to get started.