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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 (9 children)

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

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

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

[–] dependencyInjection@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Fal@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One day he will be gone, and you will give anything to have one more call with him.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Call? What's wrong with you?

[–] RamSwamson@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 (1 children)

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.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TIL about Buzzlill. Holy shit. I could probably do the same thing with Tasker but I'll happily pay $4 so I don't have to.

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

it can also be plugged into Tasker :) you can set conditions to run Tasker profiles, for example. just saying.

[–] ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Buzzkill is the first thing I installed on my OnePlus 11. I don't remember exactly, but I couldn't get some notifications to come through as vibrate only, and the ones that did vibrated for too long. Buzzkill let's me not only create custom vibrate notifications but also set the strength and duration. Game changer for sure

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

notification bar zero

What about permanent notifications? I've got "a few".

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The key will disappear from the status bar if it disconnects, you don't need the app icon too.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

It doesn't have to. For example ProtonVPN stays active even if it disconnects. There's still the VPN symbol, but the notification will tell you it's trying to reconnect.

[–] Wisely@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I just glance at it and instantly swipe away what I don't need.

[–] 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

I feel like I'd install a bunch of shit before getting anywhere close to a tenth of that. I'd hate my phone. However, I'm far from being a teenager and their ways and methods have become somewhat mysterious.

[–] lustrum@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I can see my phone getting that if I let every app just push whatever they want. I purposefully and carefully go through and ensure I'm only getting notifications for what I need them for.

I average 250 a day. With 3/4 of those being messaging apps.

[–] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Probably also random games and apps spamming you to play them

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

60% of the group get less than 300 80% get less than 500

5000 is probably a very very small percent, and probably kids that have a shit load of followers.

[–] Ado@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Holy shit man. That sounds so stressful

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I get a lot, although not that many, but I have sound turned off for most and clear them like once a week or so.