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Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Post by mr_mitm »

haltist wrote: post #17

Sometimes I will be having a conversation with someone and then their phone will buzz or make some sound and the person's attention will shift entirely to the phone. I don't think people realize the effect these gadgets have on their cognition. I have a phone but it is always on silent. I've decided that it is not acceptable to remotely hijack my attention. No notification on my phone sent by some corporation is ever…

That's why I believe phone calls should be considered intrusive these days. Unless it's an emergency or you're my mom, you should send a text. I'm not going to notice anyway unless I'm looking at my phone while you call.

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Post by aidos »

leesalminen wrote: post #20
soultrees wrote: post #4

I run my phone on DND all day, everyday and block notifications from almost all apps. The amount of garbage we have vying for our attention on an hourly basis is overwhelming sometimes. The worst is the apps where you do want notifications on, like your food delivery apps so you know when your food is at the door, but those companies take that as an invite to send you daily marketing notifications and it all feels li…

I, too, have been running my phone on DND as of late and it’s been pretty great. My wife disagrees :). I’m pretty sure iOS focus modes would allow me to configure notifications from my wife to come through while silencing the others but I’ll wait til she tells me :).

It’s fairly strightforward - if you swipe down from the top right and turn on DND there are 3 dots next to it and you can customise it. In there you can put a list of people that you want notifications from.

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Post by graypegg »

selfmodruntime wrote: post #49
MichaelRo wrote: post #38

My kid (soon to be 11 years old) has this problem and is (almost) driving me nuts. There are three causes of this: 1) He's dumb. Will click and install on any crap he comes by. 2) He doesn't know to operate his phone. Every now and then I take his phone and turn off notifications for the apps I saw that popped them. #3: This one's mysterious to me as well. Somehow they (the notifications) get re-enabled back. I'm dis…

Number 3 isn't a mystery after all, if you consider that some apps will tie features to notifications or re-prompt

This is very true. The simple explanation is your son is turning them back on without noticing. Uber Eats is the example I can think of, where in order to get notifications about arrival, you need to enable ALL notifications, including its spam ones. I'm sure this sort of lock-out + beg screen is happening in the apps your son uses.

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Post by suckitsam »

soultrees wrote: post #4

I run my phone on DND all day, everyday and block notifications from almost all apps. The amount of garbage we have vying for our attention on an hourly basis is overwhelming sometimes. The worst is the apps where you do want notifications on, like your food delivery apps so you know when your food is at the door, but those companies take that as an invite to send you daily marketing notifications and it all feels li…

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If your app wakes me up with a pointless notification, it gets uninstalled for at least a month and a one-star review on both Apple and Android app stores.

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Post by jethro_tell »

mkl95 wrote: post #3

I get phone prompts of random work stuff 24/7. At least the stuff I got as a teenager was meaningful.

Limit work app notifications then?

I don't get email updates for work accounts, limit slack notifications and still put everything in a work profile. When I'm not working, I turn everything off but my pager.

If you need me after my working hours feel free to page me, if IRS jot important enough to page then you'll have to wait until I get back to my desk.

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Post by aidos »

sergiomattei wrote: post #58
MichaelRo wrote: post #38

My kid (soon to be 11 years old) has this problem and is (almost) driving me nuts. There are three causes of this: 1) He's dumb. Will click and install on any crap he comes by. 2) He doesn't know to operate his phone. Every now and then I take his phone and turn off notifications for the apps I saw that popped them. #3: This one's mysterious to me as well. Somehow they (the notifications) get re-enabled back. I'm dis…

You handed your 11 year old a smartphone? That’s brave. My parents handed me one when I was in 9th grade.

I don’t know how long ago that was so it’s hard to say “things are different now”, but my 11 year old can’t take the school bus without having a mobile app for her ticket.

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Post by maxrecursion »

sergiomattei wrote: post #58
MichaelRo wrote: post #38

My kid (soon to be 11 years old) has this problem and is (almost) driving me nuts. There are three causes of this: 1) He's dumb. Will click and install on any crap he comes by. 2) He doesn't know to operate his phone. Every now and then I take his phone and turn off notifications for the apps I saw that popped them. #3: This one's mysterious to me as well. Somehow they (the notifications) get re-enabled back. I'm dis…

You handed your 11 year old a smartphone? That’s brave. My parents handed me one when I was in 9th grade.

My kids are 6 and 2. Right now the wife and I are trying to hold off getting them phones until they are driving. I'm sure that could change when they're in middle school and high school, and whining because all their friends have phones. But, I'm going to try my best to hold the line.

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Post by aidos »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #51
aidos wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just checked and there are 16 messages from one school in the last 7 days. The other school have managed 11. Those are emails, containing PDFs, containing important dates, if you can find them.

At least they are e-mails. Schools and kindergartens in Poland all switched over to some garbage SaaS that incorporates a half-assed, barely functioning faux-e-mail service, so I have to actually log in to their confusing and ad-infested website every other day and check if the facility sent something new. I would love it if we were using e-mails instead.

One of those is emails - the 16 notifications were push notifications through the app we have to use.

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Post by maxrecursion »

aidos wrote: post #66
sergiomattei wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You handed your 11 year old a smartphone? That’s brave. My parents handed me one when I was in 9th grade.

I don’t know how long ago that was so it’s hard to say “things are different now”, but my 11 year old can’t take the school bus without having a mobile app for her ticket.

Holy crap, that's insane. Whoever made the decision that all middle school children need smart phones to ride the bus is an idiot.

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Post by graypegg »

sergiomattei wrote: post #58
MichaelRo wrote: post #38

My kid (soon to be 11 years old) has this problem and is (almost) driving me nuts. There are three causes of this: 1) He's dumb. Will click and install on any crap he comes by. 2) He doesn't know to operate his phone. Every now and then I take his phone and turn off notifications for the apps I saw that popped them. #3: This one's mysterious to me as well. Somehow they (the notifications) get re-enabled back. I'm dis…

You handed your 11 year old a smartphone? That’s brave. My parents handed me one when I was in 9th grade.

I hate to do a bit of snooping, but you list your birth year on your socials. We're of a pretty similar age; I also only got a smart phone in high school.

I really do think the expectations from your friends when you're in your early teens in the current year, is that you have a smart phone. It's probably a major part of social life now, which would leave a kid pretty excluded. Not even touching the things in life that REQUIRE a smart phone now. (Restaurant menus, transit, maps, etc)

Our childhood is pretty much gone from existence, despite how modern it feels. I feel for the GP author, best you can do is make things as protected as you can.

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