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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 shrimp_emoji »

haolez wrote: post #26
root_axis wrote: post #7

One of the things I love about Android is the extremely granular controls on app notifications, it allows me to fine tune the disruption level of particular types of alerts or messages from app to app so that I'm only alerted to stuff I care about. edit: https://i.imgur.com/w3A9Bge.png

It's cool, but some apps (like food delivery apps) conflate all notifications into a single category, probably in an attemp to abuse the system.

I just watch the map. I forgot the app I use even has notifications since I turned them off long ago.

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

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Post by prepend »

mortigi wrote: post #126
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 would argue an even worse situation are apps like Wyze camera that really need notifications enabled to alert you to camera movement, doorbell usage or other pressing events. They have an option to opt out of marketing notifications but they ignore it if you check that and still send sometimes daily notifications of sales through of their crap.

I’ve used Wyze for a few years and get notifications of all my video events, but no marketing pushes. I think I had to set a setting but I am pretty happy with their pushes and are one of the few apps I leave on.

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

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Post by nitwit005 »

A majority of these notifications are the teens communicating with their peers. That's how you get an absurd total like thousands a day.

Much of their socializing has moved online. Parents have effectively encouraged this trend, despite complaining about phone time.

People are far less willing to let their children just hang around the neighborhood, or walk to a friend's home these days, which forces communication through phone or desktop app instead.

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

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Post by clnq »

Perhaps the problem is not the quantity of notifications, but quality. If these notifications were about meaningful social interactions, like how Apple or Google shows them in their marketing materials - friends calling and messaging friends, then it wouldn't be concerning. Most of the stuff real people get notified about, though, is really made by machines for machines (given the volume of information).

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

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Post by nogridbag »

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 was thinking of picking up the new Pixel Watch as I miss calls and notifications all the time and I thought it might reduce my phone time. But I'm also frustrated I receive too much marketing spam on apps in which I can't disable notifications. The last thing I want is those same notifications spamming my watch. Phone vendors keep releasing features that are useless to me when it seems we're all in agreement the notification spam is out of control. The vendor that gives us some way to mark notifications as spam will actually give me a reason to switch.

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

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Post by meowtimemania »

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 iOS:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201925#:~:text=Schedule%20....

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

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Post by donmcronald »

alexanderchr wrote: post #79
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…

It is a breach of trust. I give apps access to my immediate attention so they can notify me of things that need my attention. Not for telling me about their new features or some crappy partner deal. For this reason I have a one strike policy for apps. One marketing notification and permissions are revoked. Missing out on surprisingly little although it has made me stop using some services entirely.

That's exactly what I do!

Google and Apple could instantly fix the problem (of co-mingling essential and marketing notifications) if they wanted to. The current situation is like getting opted in to "street signs and flashing billboards". It's stupid.

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

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Post by yujian »

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'm also on dnd all day, i just don't wanna be disturbed
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