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Study reveals some teens receive 5,000 notifications daily, most spend almost two hours on TikTok | Kids officially don't like Facebook::undefined

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[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago

5,000 daily is 3.47 per minute for 24/7. Insane?

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 78 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

probably from all those people
who can't form a single sentence
without hitting "send"
every two words

I heard it coined as they use the send button as punctuation.

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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago

I kinda need to do this with my dad, otherwise he doesn’t notice texts. For example he texts me “Buy that spread for €0.79”. “Hazelnut or cocoa?” which if I don’t follow with ~5 question marks, he won’t even notice.

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

I mean, it's understandable in cases like those, but when you tell a story that doesn't require an immediate answer and you end up sending 20 notifications instead of putting it in one longer message, it's more than annoying.

[-] RamSwamson@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago

I recently started dating again and noticed a lot of people do this now it’s very annoying.

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

I've got one person doing that in my work group chat. I've got Buzzkill installed for the sole purpose of muting the chat for five minutes whenever they send a message in order to avoid my watch constantly vibrating for two minutes.

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[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 1 year ago

I know a lot of people who never change their Discord notifications. They get notifications for every message in every channel in every server. It's insane.

Obviously they do not actually interact with these notifications. They tune them out, and I guess eventually they will swipe them away. Personally it always stresses me out a little when I see their phones with a hundred notifications. I've never been a proponent of "inbox zero" for email, but "notification bar zero" has been my standard way of using smartphones for as long as smartphones have existed. If I got 3 notifications per minute on my phone, I would probably smash it with a hammer and go find a nice cave to retire to.

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[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

This number is skewed by Notifications John, who receives millions of notifications a day and should not be counted

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[-] Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 64 points 1 year ago

That's about 4990 more than I do.

I've disabled almost all of them. Even the ones I do get only appear as an icon on my notification bar. I don't even have lockscreen notifications anymore. I find it too invasive, and feel like the device is demanding my attention.

[-] TurboDiesel@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

IMO all notifications should be opt-in. I basically have everything but my phone, text messages, and Outlook email off. The constant buzzing throughout the day was driving me insane.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have rule where if I install an app it sends me a notification that isn't necessary for the app's functionality it gets deleted forever. I'd have to make an exception for work apps but I don't think its been an issue.

I have very few apps not from fdroid.

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[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I’m with you. I declared war on notifications during covid and they suddenly became super annoying whilst working from home

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[-] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Case@unilem.org 9 points 1 year ago

I've developed some PTSD like symptoms for when my phone goes off.

Notification, call, whatever. Immediate panic and I have to remember to breathe.

Even trimming every notification I can, it still happens several times throughout the day, and my phone only has audible notifications when I'm at home, most from my wife.

I left that job over a year ago and still I can't shake it.

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[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 year ago

5000 notifications per day? That's over 3 notifications per minute.

Are they opting in to get a notification every time someone in a thousand+ member discord server posts anything at all?

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[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 52 points 1 year ago

5000 per day?! That's insane. I feel like I get bombarded with notifications, so I checked how many I got today. Exactly 69.

[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 43 points 1 year ago

No one likes facebook anymore. It’s been junk for over a decade.

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[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

For me, notifications trigger a small hit of anxiety

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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

5000? I get annoyed just from one from an app I forgot I had installed.

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[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't have kids yet but things like these make me wonder how a parent would deal with the kids having a smartphone. If you don't get them one they're going to feel left out as you can be sure as hell that most other kids have one. I'm no psychologist but to me if you buy your kid a smartphone then you basically risk having him/her destroy his/her brain cells and attention span with Tiktok and Snapchat. When I was a kid I did have a cellphone, and I had a PC too, but our house back then didn't have internet and receiving thousands of notifications in a single day was definitely unheard of back then.

[-] atomWood@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

That’s a very valid concern. Personally, I think parents should keep their kids away from phones much longer. While I’ve only got a kid on the way, I’m hoping to keep them off of smartphones until high school.

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[-] Smacks@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

I'd go insane if I got 5k notifications in a day

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 26 points 1 year ago

5k notifications are 99th percentile. Probably the media is around 100-200 and average should be lower.

[-] thejodie@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago

My stats say my phone gets ~140/day. I definitely ignore 99% of them, just like my 10k+ unread emails.

[-] meliaesc@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I'm genuinely curious why you don't disable notifications you don't need, and unsubscribe from emails you dont want?

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[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Meanwhile I’m here with 2 notifications a day that are @everyone tags or group notifications.

[-] KeefChief13@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Kids have not liked facebook in ages

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I think you can just say “everyone officially dislikes Facebook.”

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[-] vodkasolution@feddit.it 19 points 1 year ago

Totally unrealistic. "Some teens" are the addicts that would have watched TV 16 hours per day if they were born 20 years before, young guys know how to manage notifications and most of them just don't care about them

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[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

How? I hate getting any notification unless it's a text or phone call.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago

I turn off almost all notifications. I only allow messaging apps, and system notifications. Even then I find it too much to be honest.

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[-] Bogus5553@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Two hours a day? Rookie numbers...

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year ago

5000/day doesn't sound realistic, c'mon kids are addicted but it's not >5k per day. That's like one every ten seconds for your waking hours

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[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Mostly because they don't actually know how to disable notifications

[-] Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] maxenmajs@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] m3t00@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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

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