I didn’t need a survey to tell me this.

Sixty-four percent of Americans say they spend more time with their computers than they do with their significant others. I have two laptops. One belongs to my employer and the other belongs to me. And I spend entirely too much time with both of them.

SupportSoft Inc., an IT service management vendor, is thinking of expanding into the consumer space, so it conducted a new consumer survey about how people interact with their computers.

I’m not sure why SupportSoft wanted to know if people get the urge to throw the computers out the window when they crash. But it did. And apparently 19% of people feel that way sometimes. Nine percent said they feel stranded and alone when their computers crash, and 11% curse at their dead machines.

And apparently 84% of people feel more dependent on their computers than they did three years ago. This also makes sense to me. Nowadays, whether I want to know who directed the movie Poltergeist or whatever happened to the makers of ColecoVision, I go online. What would I do with myself if I couldn’t look up this trivial information? I’d probably spend more time with my significant other. And with that in mind, gotta go!