35 trillion e-mails

By Alex Manchester, Editor, KM Review & The Internal Comms Hub (Australia), Melcrum

Matt Moore writes:

[..."This year there'll be about 35 trillion emails sent (97 billion a day). That's approximately 17 emails a day for every person on the planet, with about 40% of these (7 per person) being spam.

This compares with 620 billion SMS texts in the first quarter of 2007 (3 trillion for the year) and 167 billion minutes of international telephone calls made in 2005..."]

That's a pretty amazing. Wat's even scarier is that if you divide the number of e-mails sent by the number of people online (roughly estimated at 1.245 Billion), that daily figure jumps to a mean average of 79 e-mails per person, per day - 32 of which are spam.

Did someone say "e-mail overload"?