Finding yourself writing (and later regretting) emails while drunk? If it doesn't sound familiar, it soon could.
Bad e-mail behavior like sending out drunk emails is prevalent among webmail users, according to the results of a survey released Tuesday by Google.
"'Save as a draft' is an excellent feature," said Jen Grant, Google's group product marketing manager and resident digital culture expert in a phone interview. __
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The study, conducted last fall by Nielsen revealed that snooping without permission or sending e-mails after one too many nightcaps was fairly common among the surveyed participants: 27 of women and 21 percent of men admitted to prying into email accounts without permission while 13 percent of webmail users confessed to sending out a tipsy email.
Grant also pointed out that the women and men participants had very different opinions when it came to starting up -- and breaking off -- relationships via e-mail.
"Men think it's not so bad, but women think its really bad," said Grant. More men than women had ended relationships with a digital note and were also likely to ask someone out on a date with an e-mail.
"It goes against the idea that e-mail is fading out ... we're seeing it become even more ingrained in our daily lives," said Grant. "It's not a passing fad."
The study took place in October of last year, polling nearly 2,000 webmail users of sites like Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.
