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My mom’s phone looks like a notification factory exploded in her status bar. I bet she gets a dozen notifications a minute. She has all of her Facebook notifications on, set to push; she has weather notifications from multiple weather apps; she has email notifications, text message notifications, advertising notifications from random stores… it’s hellish. Thankfully all of her notifications are set to silent.
Anyway, having seen my mom’s phone, I can well imagine 5,000 a day in someone who doesn’t know or doesn’t care about notification hygiene.
As far as I can tell she ignores all but the top two or three at any given time, and just checks individual apps (messaging, email) as desired. So functionally, it’s like she has no notifications.
I’m 36, certified old to a teenager, and I think Facebook is the lamest of them all. They’re all pretty toxic (even Lemmy can be, definitely reddit) but Facebook is easily top 3.
Apps are designed for maximum engagement. I don’t know if my experience is unique but I turned off all notifications in Twitter’s settings, yet it still shows exactly one notification when I launch the app. Kinda creepy how blatantly they ignore your wishes to not get spammed.
5000 seems like way too much. That’s roughly 1 every 15-20 seconds, including at night.
I would be interested to see what percentage of those are actual real interactions (e.g. DMs), which are general interactions (e.g. “XYZ liked your post”) and which are marketing CTAs.
5000? lrn2 opt out. I’m always turning off notifications I don’t care about. most. most apps overdo notifications and need to be silenced as a minimum. having my phone constantly doinking gets old pretty fast
I already get an internal struggle to scream out of frustration every time I see the mail box of one of my colleagues having 100+ unread mails. Most coming from automated systems like Jira, Jenkins, etc.
I funnel all those mails into separate folders, and just click through them once in a while. Or mass mark them as read.
I can’t emphasize how important it is for you to control your phone, especially notifications. Every notification is literally a mind hijacking attempt. Regardless of the type of notification, it’s something that disrupts our thinking and our flow.
Some of them are necessary—but most aren’t.
All the native apps will of course try to get as much permission from you as possible, including notifications. Don’t allow this permission freely.
Get really strict about which apps need to send you notifications, and when. Take it from a dude who used to give free reign to all apps for notifications.
Once I started thinking in a more digitally minimalistic way, it made a huge difference. Running GrapheneOS actually helped with this a lot. But you don’t need GOS to do this and feel the difference.
I got some notifications turned on, but most of em are silent. So they still get delivered, but they’re not time-sensitive. They’ll be there when I check my phone next. I don’t need em interrupting whatever I was doing or thinking.
TL;DR: Be strict about which notifications you allow, and when. It’ll do wonders for your thinking, productivity, and mental health.
That unfortunately is going to be app dependent as far as I know. Your phone can set if a given app will alert you, but for example facebook would have to filter which friend’s notifications get sent.
An app that let you manage notifications by user across multiple platforms would be amazing.
“I don’t want to hear from Jay today” would be an awesome checkbox.
Yeah, I believe the newer android versions allow for that but requires app developers to implement notification sorting. Unfortunately it really isn’t in their interest to do so.
WTF? Why do people like getting notifications at all? Every time I get one on my phone that is not important I am just full of anger because it is distracting me from getting stuff done.
I get notifications for precisely two things: Texts and emails. And only emails because of work. Otherwise it would only be texts. I turn off all other notifications the second I install the app because I don’t need that shit.
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5000? I get annoyed just from one from an app I forgot I had installed.
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My mom’s phone looks like a notification factory exploded in her status bar. I bet she gets a dozen notifications a minute. She has all of her Facebook notifications on, set to push; she has weather notifications from multiple weather apps; she has email notifications, text message notifications, advertising notifications from random stores… it’s hellish. Thankfully all of her notifications are set to silent.
Anyway, having seen my mom’s phone, I can well imagine 5,000 a day in someone who doesn’t know or doesn’t care about notification hygiene.
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As far as I can tell she ignores all but the top two or three at any given time, and just checks individual apps (messaging, email) as desired. So functionally, it’s like she has no notifications.
I’m 36, certified old to a teenager, and I think Facebook is the lamest of them all. They’re all pretty toxic (even Lemmy can be, definitely reddit) but Facebook is easily top 3.
Apps are designed for maximum engagement. I don’t know if my experience is unique but I turned off all notifications in Twitter’s settings, yet it still shows exactly one notification when I launch the app. Kinda creepy how blatantly they ignore your wishes to not get spammed.
I’m almost 40 and I officially don’t like Facebook. Why anyone still uses it is beyond me, it’s just don’t a good experience anymore.
Tbf though, I’ve backed off most social platforms.
5000 per day?! That’s insane. I feel like I get bombarded with notifications, so I checked how many I got today. Exactly 69.
I feel like you have a nice balance that still feels too intense sometimes. I bet I get maybe 30 on a normal day and 50 on a busy day.
Lessoning notifications is one of the things I actively strive for to enjoy life more.
Kids don’t like Facebook!?
They don’t like posts that have captions like “wait for it” or “when you see it” for clips where nothing even slightly out if the ordinary happens?
I use FB for the messenger app, and even then most people I know who were on FB ditched it for Instagram ages ago. Basically useless.
5000 seems like way too much. That’s roughly 1 every 15-20 seconds, including at night.
I would be interested to see what percentage of those are actual real interactions (e.g. DMs), which are general interactions (e.g. “XYZ liked your post”) and which are marketing CTAs.
Good, let Facebook die in the hands of the children .
I think you can just say “everyone officially dislikes Facebook.”
I get an average of 30 messages/day, on the good days…
throw your fucking phone away
Yes don’t use this specific copy of a computer use this one instead.
Because phones aren’t a basic necessity in the Western world in 2023 or anything.
5000? lrn2 opt out. I’m always turning off notifications I don’t care about. most. most apps overdo notifications and need to be silenced as a minimum. having my phone constantly doinking gets old pretty fast
I already get an internal struggle to scream out of frustration every time I see the mail box of one of my colleagues having 100+ unread mails. Most coming from automated systems like Jira, Jenkins, etc. I funnel all those mails into separate folders, and just click through them once in a while. Or mass mark them as read.
I don’t think I could survive 5000 notifications.
I can’t emphasize how important it is for you to control your phone, especially notifications. Every notification is literally a mind hijacking attempt. Regardless of the type of notification, it’s something that disrupts our thinking and our flow.
Some of them are necessary—but most aren’t.
All the native apps will of course try to get as much permission from you as possible, including notifications. Don’t allow this permission freely.
Get really strict about which apps need to send you notifications, and when. Take it from a dude who used to give free reign to all apps for notifications.
Once I started thinking in a more digitally minimalistic way, it made a huge difference. Running GrapheneOS actually helped with this a lot. But you don’t need GOS to do this and feel the difference.
I got some notifications turned on, but most of em are silent. So they still get delivered, but they’re not time-sensitive. They’ll be there when I check my phone next. I don’t need em interrupting whatever I was doing or thinking.
TL;DR: Be strict about which notifications you allow, and when. It’ll do wonders for your thinking, productivity, and mental health.
Agreed. The only notifications I have on are for my email and texts. The first thing I do when I download a new app is turn off notifications.
I just wanted an easier way to filter what is notified. I don’t care if X or Y promoted profile posted, but I want to know if a friend did.
That unfortunately is going to be app dependent as far as I know. Your phone can set if a given app will alert you, but for example facebook would have to filter which friend’s notifications get sent.
An app that let you manage notifications by user across multiple platforms would be amazing.
“I don’t want to hear from Jay today” would be an awesome checkbox.
Yeah, I believe the newer android versions allow for that but requires app developers to implement notification sorting. Unfortunately it really isn’t in their interest to do so.
WTF? Why do people like getting notifications at all? Every time I get one on my phone that is not important I am just full of anger because it is distracting me from getting stuff done.
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I get notifications for precisely two things: Texts and emails. And only emails because of work. Otherwise it would only be texts. I turn off all other notifications the second I install the app because I don’t need that shit.
Literal doses of happy chemicals get released because attention. You should watch the Social Dilema if you haven’t already.
You can literally get people hooked on this and retrain on what is good happy time and what is not good happy time. Shit is scary.
For me, notifications trigger a small hit of anxiety
Kids have not liked facebook in ages
They’ve reported it for ages, but it’s only been in the last few years that they’ve actually been not signing up.