In a recent survey it was revealed that half of Britons are addicted to their e-mails. This is not something that has been around forever, but a thoroughly modern form of procrastination, and one that is made all the more tempting by the technological advances of recent years. Our e-mails can include images and multimedia, our computers can be set to check for new mail every minute, and we can even access our e-mails on our mobile phones from anywhere in the world (with signal). And now, as if sending e-mails wasn’t enough, the world has embraced the concept of blogging, writing messages not just for a particular recipient but for the whole world. Free blogs allow anyone and everyone to post their ideas and thoughts on the web. Nothing is safe.

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