Here’s a press release giving details of a survey conducted for telecom giant SBC Communications which shows that Internet and other digital communications technologies are important enough for a overwhelming majority of people to take them along on vacations.
Checking e-mail is among the most popular activities for tech-savvy households, with half saying they can’t survive more than a week without it. Vacationers are more likely to e-mail friends and family than the office — only 21 percent are likely to correspond with work while 42 percent are planning to keep in touch with family and friends.
I suppose if I could afford vacations and digital devices, I’d feel the same way.
guilty
Hell, I couldn’t even stay away from the email for more than 4 days on my honeymoon. At least I didn’t post any stories!
Or there’s the other option.
Aside from those that haul along the devices, there are all the people who just mosey on over to the local library and join for the week or however long they’ll be there.
My family did this the last time we were on vacation, resulting in the usual corresponding increase in the branch’s circulation, along with much checking-of-email.
Re:Or there’s the other option.
Let’s hope that most libraries have recognized this and are welcoming to travelers and visiting grandmas. We finally instituted a “guest pass” and are working toward making our access more hassle-free.
Re:guilty
Yeah, but you thought about it! Admit it!
Wireless
Wifi and cell phone technologies are making it all to easy to check mail, etc. now. Thankfully I suspect my parents’ house in SE Indiana will (again) prove immune to all technology after 1980. No wifi and probably no decent cell signal! Besides, who can concentrate with the blaring police scanner fighting with the shrieking TV in the background?
can’t live without it
Last summer my friend (whom I’d met over the net!) and I travelled to Cape Breton and stayed at UCCB (University College of Cape Breton) residence. (It’s cheap and clean). We went to the university library and used _their_ comps. Granted we were blocked from yahoo and hotmail, but were able to access our regular email (I had a freemail that had POP3 access that the university didn’t have blocked).
Given that it was summer and I think we only saw two other people while we were in the library, we weren’t stealing time from others. And it was just a short walk from the building we were staying in.
It’d drive me nuts to have to go for a week w/out checking my email!
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