Extroverts are cyber slackers

A NEW STUDY into cyberslacking indicates that it is not the quiet ones, or even the most open minded types which are more distracted by the Interweb, but extroverts.

The study, from Monash University, reverses previous research and dubs extroverted types as cyberslackers who are more likely to waste time emailing friends and doing general internet searches.

Kerryann Wyatt took two years to complete the study which attempted to match personality types with internet misuse at work

She found that people scoring highly in extroversion were significantly more likely to send higher numbers of both work and non work-related emails.

People who were more open to experience were more likely to use the internet as a valuable tool for information/leisure searches to satisfy their widespread interest and need for stimulation, rather than for personal uses.

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