One minute on the Internet: 640TB data transferred, 100k tweets, 204 million e-mails sent

[FLWrd]

You guys really don't know what an average is.
Not every account receives 144 emails per day. That would be an average. It does not mean that every single email account in the world gets 144 emails in a day, it means that if emails were distributed evenly, that would occur.

Sorry, but I know perfectly well what an average is. And median, mode, standard deviation, skew, kurtosis, and what a t-test is, what a mancova is and how to interpret beta weights. So, when I receive 30 emails per day, and people in my environment do not seem quite close to that mark, that makes me suspicious. My whole point was that the number is probably inflated.
Now, about averages: open your mailbox and compute how many emails you got in the last, say, week? That number should be around 1000. Doesn't that sound too high?

 

[matrix86]

There's a difference between them getting an average, and you just picking out a random number. Over this past 7 days, I've received 236 emails (replies from threads I'm subscribed to, youtube replies/channel comments/video comments, personal emails, deal emails from online retailers, job sites giving me matches, spam, updates on items I've ordered and I think that's about it) in just one of my 3 accounts (I was going to find an average between them, but I had already emptied the trash in one of those 3 accounts so it wouldn't really be accurate).

 

[FLWrd]

Still makes me wonder how you can get from those numbers to 204M emails per minute. You got 33 emails per day in that account, and it might well be your most active account. Sounds reasonable. I get 30-ish across 3 accounts. Many people don't have that kind of activity. And for every data point under the average, there must be some compensation. I still think the number is too high.

 

[matrix86]

After thinking about it more, and about your original comment that it's one email received by multiple people, wouldn't it still be multiple emails that were sent? The content is the same, yes, but from your computer, when you pressed "send" the email was copied and then sent out to the number of people you specified. So while you may have written only one email, you sent out dozens of copies. Thus, you did not send 1 email, you sent out 12 copies of the same thing.

I spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to word this, and I'm still not sure I did it right. One of those things where it makes sense in your head but once you try to explain it, you can't quite figure out how, lol.

In a nutshell, the content is the same, but multiple copies were sent out. They branched off from your connection. Make sense?

 

[Puiu]

Whoa... You must be a busy person working in web development optimizing the internet for all and sundry, manipulating a lot of email accounts with data rushing at you at a 100mbps. On top of that you still find the time to diagnose other peoples health issues and offer sage advice. I can't blame you for not noticing improved internet speeds for the 3-4 years because if you had, Superman would be coming to you for lessons.

You strike me like someone who never worked one day in your life or all you did was to write emails for your boss.
You sarcastic tone shows me how immature you are on an issue that affects everyone. I know what I said seems like 1st world problems (although I live in a 3rd world country), but if you actually did anything else besides reading emails and playing WOW then you would know why I said that internet connection matters A LOT when you want to improve productivity at work.
Uploading 100MB can stop your work for a long time if you don't have a good internet connection. And if you have to upload a lot more than that then you loose hours of work time waiting to upload and waiting for the other person to download and give you a response on what is ok and what needs to be changed. When I have to work on an 3G connection I loose hours just waiting. Do you find that ok?

 

[war59312]

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[Skidmarksdeluxe]

You strike me like someone who never worked one day in your life or all you did was to write emails for your boss.
You sarcastic tone shows me how immature you are on an issue that affects everyone. I know what I said seems like 1st world problems (although I live in a 3rd world country), but if you actually did anything else besides reading emails and playing WOW then you would know why I said that internet connection matters A LOT when you want to improve productivity at work.
Uploading 100MB can stop your work for a long time if you don't have a good internet connection. And if you have to upload a lot more than that then you loose hours of work time waiting to upload and waiting for the other person to download and give you a response on what is ok and what needs to be changed. When I have to work on an 3G connection I loose hours just waiting. Do you find that ok?

Seeing not many people like your posts, I'll give you a 'like to' bring up your quota. Now tell me I'm nothing if not generous

 

[Puiu]

Thanks Skid. I forgot that that there is a like button on this forum. I'm not a big fan of facebook and this "like button" trend ^_^ , but I do press it from time to time when I find something good.