Study reveals some teens receive 5,000 notifications daily, most spend almost two hours on TikTok | Kids officially don’t like Facebook::undefined

  • HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      Agreed. The only notifications I have on are for my email and texts. The first thing I do when I download a new app is turn off notifications.

    • lorty@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

        • lorty@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Yeah, I believe the newer android versions allow for that but requires app developers to implement notification sorting. Unfortunately it really isn’t in their interest to do so.