Most of us who spend our time online will find that we get distracted often by the huge range of online activities and applications that are now vying to get our attention.
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Although you more than likely use email for work on a consistent basis it can be one of the biggest time wasters if used incorrectly. With threaded messages in services such as Gmail people will often use email just like Instant messaging now with up to 10 messages in a thread to decide the simplest of tasks that could be sorted with a 30 second phone call.