This stuff is so hard for me to understand. I put actual time and effort into avoiding those notifications - i try to give new apps a fair shake, but when spam notifications start to show, I slowly ratchet back notification privileges until eventually I just uninstall the app, especially if I’ve disabled notification permissions and it keeps begging me to re enable them.
To me, this sounds like teens - people, really, because plenty of people ‘somehow’ wind up in this exact situation, where ‘somehow’ there’s just too many notifications on their phone to keep up with, as if it’s some sort of inexorable force of nature that it’s futile to resist. It just comes off as such bullshit to my ears, it’s nothing more than unwillingness to take responsibility for your own choices, and to put effort towards arranging your environment in a way that suits you.
If your phone is doing things you don’t want it to do, your response should never be to just shrug and say “oh well I guess that’s the way things are for me now.”
Given how many times I see that same situation expanded to encompass someone’s entire approach to managing their life in general, I really shouldn’t be surprised - I just cannot understand why taking control of that stuff and working to resist the things you don’t want just does not seem to be a priority for so many people. They just let bad things happen to them. It’s mind boggling.
The fact that teens are struggling with this doesn’t even seem significant to me. This attitude is everywhere regardless of age.
To me, this sounds like teens - people, really, because plenty of people ‘somehow’ wind up in this exact situation, where ‘somehow’ there’s just too many notifications on their phone to keep up with, as if it’s some sort of inexorable force of nature that it’s futile to resist. It just comes off as such bullshit to my ears, it’s nothing more than unwillingness to take responsibility for your own choices, and to put effort towards arranging your environment in a way that suits you.
If your phone is doing things you don’t want it to do, your response should never be to just shrug and say “oh well I guess that’s the way things are for me now.”
Given how many times I see that same situation expanded to encompass someone’s entire approach to managing their life in general, I really shouldn’t be surprised - I just cannot understand why taking control of that stuff and working to resist the things you don’t want just does not seem to be a priority for so many people. They just let bad things happen to them. It’s mind boggling.
The fact that teens are struggling with this doesn’t even seem significant to me. This attitude is everywhere regardless of age.