William F. Garrity

I am!  See this post by Jackie Huba in the wonderful Church of the Customer blog: 

Are you hyperconnected?

Do you read email on your PDA before you get out of bed?

Do you Twitter in the bathroom?

Do you update your Facebook profile while IM'ing and talking on the phone?

If this sounds like you, you're probably part of the hyperconnected culture, where multi-tasking communication is the norm. The power switch is always on.

An IDC/Nortel study of some 2,400 people in 17 countries found that 16 percent of respondents are already hyperconnected, embracing a world of multiple devices and intense use of communication applications.

Companies will have to adapt to the growing number of hyperconnected employees whose work and personal lives are blurred together by all of those devices and applications, not to mention customers who'll want to communicate with companies the same way.

Are you hyperconnected? The magic number for devices is seven. That's seven devices for work or personal use while using at least nine applications like IM, text messaging, web conferencing and social networks.

I didn't think I was hyperconnected until I listed my devices and applications.

My devices

1. Macbook Pro
2. iPhone
3. Landline phone
4. Nuvi GPS system (in car)
5. DirecTV
6. iPod Shuffle
7. Remote webcam

Applications

1. Firefox
2. Entourage
3. iPhone text messaging
4. Yahoo Messenger
5. Skype VoiP
6. Skype video conferencing
7. Facebook
8. Twitter
9. SWOM
10. Church of the Customer blog
11. BlipTV
12. Flickr
13. YouTube

Are you hyperconnected and if so, is this a good thing or a bad thing for your overall mental health?