MojoKid writes "Researchers at Ohio State health center and the health center of California, Irvine conducted a dial study by randomly surveying individuals employed full-time who use cd players in an office altitude at least five hours per week. They netted 912 respondents, of which 29.8 percent claimed to use IM in the comfort design 'to keep connected with coworkers and clients.' Neither occupation, education, gender, nor age seem to have an impact on whether an single is an IM user or not. The study theorizes that using IM enables individuals to 'flag their availability.' Doing so can limit when IM interruptions occur. Even if an IM interruption comes when it is not necessarily befitting to the recipient, it is 'often socially acceptable' to ignore an incoming message or respond with a terse reply stating that the recipient is too busy at the moment to correctly respond." Also another study newly found that water is wet, and a third study found that most studies waste money.

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