How many emails did you receive last year? What? You forgot to count? That’s OK….who can blame you? According to Cue, a mobile app that helps organize emails and schedules, you probably got about 5,579 emails (the average in 2012). You also probably sent out 869 emails. I can say I beat those averages exponentially.
The number of emails words written by the average person in 1012 was 41,368, which about the same amount of words contained in the novel The Lord of the Flies, though I doubt most of us were as eloquent in our writing as William Golding in our emails.
A few more email trivia points while we are at it. The average reply time lengthened in 2012 to 2.5 days from 2.2 days in 2012. The busiest hour of the day for emails is 11:00AM and the busiest day of the week is Tuesday. The most popular emoticon? : ) typed together constituted over 50% of all emoticons sent.
