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UK web users hide their presence
Categories: Web 2.0
07 May 2008
Brits regularly use separate identities online and multiple email accounts, new research by the Post Office has found.
It revealed 57 per cent log onto more than one account to separate their work and private lives.
"However, it's not just the devious amongst us who are making the most of multiple online identities," noted head of telephony, Stewart Fox-Mills.
"Having more than one email address can be useful in the battle against online fraud and spam. It is also a good way to keep personal and professional lives separate."
Residents of the north-east are the most sneaky - 16 per cent have five or more email addresses and online identities.
Surprisingly, the research revealed men were most likely to use the web for romance. Mr StewartFox-Wills said: "People are making the most of the net and living out secret lives in cyber space."
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