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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 jabroni_salad »

scottmcdot wrote: post #50
bengale wrote: post #14

Almost everything that wants to send me a notification get put into scheduled summary on my phone. It’s much easier to deal with them a few times a day rather than at random times.

How do you do that? I would love the ability to "batch" notifications from certain apps. Eg every second hour they notify, if any notification is pending.

On android there's an app called Buzzkill that can do it. I have my notifications batched during the workday and mute successive notifications from that one friend who chats with way too many linebreaks.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston....

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Post by JadoJodo »

I remember the first day I got an Apple Watch: I got a buzz, which was a notification for NewEgg. It was a sale notification and I realized (in horror) that this was the real-life version of a pop up ad. I disabled all notifications (save messages and calls) right then and there. It’s crazy.

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Post by matham »

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…

This is the primary reason I root and install greenify. To prevent these spammy apps, that I sometimes use, from running in the background and sending notifications. Unless I open the app in the forground specifically.

Too bad greenify is not being maintained anymore

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

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

jacobsimon wrote: post #23
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…

Maybe Apple should add a similar distinction between transactional and marketing notifications as we have with email.

Apple has a great feature called "Notification Summaries". More urgent notifications are shown immediately, but notifications from apps of your choosing are all bundled together into two daily summaries.

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Post by [deleted] »

tivert wrote: post #132
jacquesm wrote: post #5

Everybody is. I'm strongly of the opinion that all this 'needy tech' is a net negative and I try hard to keep it out of my life. But some of it, mostly associated with my kids schooling, is very hard to avoid. 10 emails per week about some school portal with 'an important message' (which you need to separately logged into, of course the message is so important that it can't be entrusted to mere email, even though the…

> Tech should serve us It should , but it's becoming more and more obvious that it won't and can't . Literally every economic incentive it pushing towards 1) making it crappier until it's just good enough to buy, 2) maximally exploiting its users. The market won't save us, because a competitor who tries to gain market-share by not doing that crap will eventually turn around and join in the fun, once it's in their int…

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

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

sa-code wrote: post #168
dataflow wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Starbucks is like this. They deliberately bundle together "Promotions & Order Status" to make sure you receive their junk.

Sounds like a good reason to give your business to someone else

This is the answer. Money talks, so give your money to businesses that earn it.

"But it's not as convenient!" I hear some yell. Then it's obviously not enough of a bother to you, so just suck it up and deal with their bad behavior.

Because until you take your money elsewhere, nothing will change. And why should it? They obviously haven't crossed a line for enough people. Which means it'll just get worse.

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

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

lolinder wrote: post #95
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…

> in the hands of a kid, today's phone technology and it's inability to stop this crap it's the incarnation of evil. I'm going to be that guy: this honestly just sounds like you're abdicating your parental responsibility and placing the blame on the tech. Yes, the tech is bad, but there's no reason why your kid should be subjected to the full weight of its awfulness besides that you let him. Step one is to question w…

There are companies out there like Gabb that specifically make phones for kids with comprehensive parental controls. You can even get them just a watch that lets them call and text approved contacts, if that's all you need it for.

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

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Post by internet101010 »

Only thing I have notifications turned on for are things that require immediate attention like messages or maybe emails. Disabling notifications is the first thing I do after installing an app, which should be the default setting for any app.

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

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

graypegg wrote: post #70
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 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 th…

I'm a parent of extremely well adjusted kids who have no smartphones, and it's only isolating if the parents aren't involved. By that I mean we can coordinate with friends and friends parents for our children, which is just a good practice anyway.

Call me a helicopter parent if you'd like, but we've found that our kids have strong friend support groups, and all the parents are now friends as well (or at least friendly), thus creating a healthy sort of community.

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

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.

Complain to the school board. In person, at a meeting. Post about it on social media - you'll find you're far from alone in objecting to that ridiculous requirement.

Force the change, don't leave it up to others.

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