Are you stressed out when your computer slows down? You set forward the hourglass or the bar indicating the loading progress of a site or perform a task? You are the hourglass syndrome.
It is not a new psychiatric diagnosis of a condition but no less real. In a survey conducted by the Harris Institute for the Intel 2315 with Americans, two out of three Internet users (66%) reported being “somewhat stressful” in a slowdown of their computer, 23% reported being “very “Or” extremely “stressed.
The syndrome is the basis for the marketing campaign for Intel “Hourglass Syndrome, do you enough?” Which is humorously placed in the months of stress awareness (April) in the United States. According to estimates from Harris Interactive, an average user spent 13 minutes a day to wait after his computer.