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5,000 daily is 3.47 per minute for 24/7. Insane?
probably from all those people
who can’t form a single sentence
without hitting “send”
every two words
Mhm, I’ll absolutely do this sometimes, as a stylistic choice. I usually type and text with perfect spelling and punctuation (at least as close to perfect as my brain can get!)
Sometimes, typing in a punctuation-free or texting in a rapid manner like that can make a message come across the way it sounds in my mind.
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.
I recently started dating again and noticed a lot of people do this now it’s very annoying.
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.
What’s the disadvantage? I really only see advantages.
So here’s an example:
you: hey
you: are you free right now?
other: nah. Sorry
other: but I shold have time around 17:00.
you: Ok. Call me when you’re done. It’s kinda important
other: Ok
The first message introduces a conversation followed by a follow up. As soon as you send the first message it’s easier to send the second one too since you already introduced the conversation.
The other person then answers with a short answer where they don’t really have to think about what they write and how they write it. You instantly get an answer.
What’s the disadvantage?
A: hey (my watch vibrates once)
A: are you free right now? (my watch vibrates again)
B: nah. Sorry (their phone plays the sound once)
B: but I shold have time around 17:00. (their phone plays the sound again)
as opposed to:
A: hey, are you free right now? (one vibration)
B: nah, sorry, but I should have time around 17:00 (one sound played)
My friends in a group chat sometimes have something to ask me so they be like: ‘Hey, Critical_Insight?’ - to which I two hours later reply: ‘Yeah?’ and then maybe an hour later I get the actual question and an hour from that I reply to it. If they instead would’ve just asked the question in the first message, I then would have answered to in in my first reply, and then be done with it. Maybe it’s just me, but I see that as waste of everyones time.
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.
I have been doing inbox zero for a few months now and it has been great. Swipe right to delete, left to archive. Anything in my inbox actually needs my attention.
Also don’t give out my real email and unsubscribe from anything I don’t need. It’s just a few emails per day now.
notification bar zero
What about permanent notifications? I’ve got “a few”.
Yeah, I have a few as well. A lot of those can be hidden without being killed if you long-press them and click the gear. Others I actually like to have so I can see the status, e.g. I want to know if my VPN disconnects.
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.
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.
Turn sounds and vibrate off. Then you can keep it in your pocket and enjoy silence.
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 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.
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.
Sorry for you, but how the fuck did you get like that ? If you aren’t massively exaggerating, that sounds super un healthy and a massive mental issue. What can possibly make it become like that?
It’s a symptom rather than a problem.
Some jobs are incredibly stressful - often the result of being given responsibility for things which are either out of your control or you don’t have resources appropriate to address. Sadly, this intense pressure inspires high levels of performance at the cost of the individual’s sanity.
If your phone is your “inbox” or the way you’re notified of incidents then it’s natural that over time a notification will signal your endochrine system to go into fight or flight mode.
When a lizard sees a moving shadow and darts for the bushes - that doesn’t mean it’s scared of shadows it just doesn’t want to get eaten by a swooping raptor.
Agreed. Use the screen time app on your phone, go overboard with it. I allow 30 min for Tiktok, 10 for IG, 45 for web browsing in general, 20 for Telegram, and even these I feel are too much, but I get so bored at work. It’s really easy just to get into a flow state and not realize you sat there for an hour straight staring at your phone. Trying to find more small paperbacks to keep in my pocket to replace this.
Also the “Clockify” app on PC can track how much time you are using it. You can set it to remind you certain amounts of time like Pomodoro when using which is great and makes you conscious of how much time you’re using.
Trying to find more small paperbacks to keep in my pocket to replace this.
The more digital dopamine you can replace, the better.
Also the “Clockify” app on PC can track how much time you are using it.
An open source, cross-platform, and local-first (so data never leaves your device) platform is ActivityWatch. :)
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.
I am still kind of in a state of dissonance after learning that some people don’t disconnect their phones from internet when it’s not directly used. That just feels wrong on some level. Cursed, I’d say.
I don’t disconnect my phone from internet because my usage is too spontaneous to always be turning it on or off. I do have my app permissions locked down though, GPS always off unless I’m using it, and nothing is allowed to run in the background except my VPN. I totally disconnect my pc from the network cable when I’m not actively downloading something though.
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?
I think it might be notifications for group chats they’re in. Maybe spread over multiple apps? Anecdotally I remember having the same friend group on multiple apps, with a couple of members missing/added in each. So many times the same topic create double or triple notifications. But 5000 is insane…
