Wrong! Americans are not addicted to email. That is absurd. No, Americans are addicted to porn! Well, that is based on what I clean off of client hard drives everyday.

U.S. residents are so hooked on e-mail that some check for messages in the bathroom, in church and while driving, a new survey sponsored by America Online (Profile, Products, Articles) has found.

The average e-mail user in the U.S. has two or three e-mail accounts and spends about an hour every day reading, sending and replying to messages, according to the survey, conducted by Opinion Research.

E-mail dependency is so strong for 41 percent of survey respondents that they check their e-mail inbox right after getting out of bed in the morning. The average user checks his inbox five times per day, according to the survey, which polled 4,012 respondents at least 18 years old in the 20 largest U.S. cities.

About a fourth of respondents acknowledged being so e-mailholic that they can’t go more than two or three days without checking for messages. That includes vacations, during which 60 percent of respondents admitted logging into their inbox. [Read the rest]