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Now that app makers have realized we're muting our phones and disabling app notifications, they're doing them within the apps... It creates dependency and anxie
by winternett 4y ago
Now that app makers have realized we're muting our phones and disabling app notifications, they're doing them within the apps... It creates dependency and anxiety. The best way I've found to deal with the constant prodding is to simply leave my phone at home or in the car nearby whenever I want to enjoy a day or moment. It's a device I paid for, it shouldn't cause me stress.
Google and Apple can easily set up reasonable standards for app makers, but they chose not to, because they themselves are tied to the constant financial greed of the ecosystem. There is now no way to buy a highly useful device that isn't laden with advertising capabilities, and robust enough for you to disable tracking... The only way to limit all of that is to simply leave the devices and step away from them for sanity.
Talking to real people creates more dopamine for me than the Internet does now, it's a gift... We shouldn't ever take our ability to talk in real life with people for granted, because the Internet is turning fast into a distorted reality bent on spamming us for profit and scams now more than ever, and no one there cares about the damage they do until it shows up in their own households (far too late to fix the problems they caused).
- rapind 4y agoI recently find that anything on my phone or computer that tries to grab my attention, whether it's in an app or on a website, produces immediate annoyance from me. Even some genuinely helpful (but unnecessary) notifications. Popups, badges, dings, etc. I hear about how "people" get a dopamine hit from the dings or whatever, and meanwhile I'm basically the opposite.
- eastbound 4y agoStress. Especially on Twitter, every news today starts with “NEWS ALERT!” + a boring news or analysis that everyone knows. It produces stress. The content of the news is always highly disappointing.
- winternett 4y agoEventually the overload will destroy itself... Hang in there!
- teddyh 4y agoI fear that the market will stay irrational for longer than we can remain sane.
- winternett 4y agoMe too, these days the greatest days are the ones without crisis and when I don't need to do anything productive online.
- baliex 4y agoNot all dings are equal. If they're replies to messages you've sent (i.e. the continuation of a conversation) or your latest instagram post getting a like, you're gonna get that hit. Namely, for the validation that someone out there is interested enough in something you put out there to respond to it. At the other end of the spectrum it's Uber Eats promos∆, news headlines, or Google Maps begging for a review. Maybe you'd place them elsewhere on the dopamine-spectrum but you get my point. ∆especially annoying because I want them on when I have a delivery coming, but off at all other times!
- gombosg 4y ago> Now that app makers have realized we're muting our phones and disabling app notifications, they're doing them within the apps... It creates dependency and anxiety. This is so true and so widespread that I haven't even realized it's happening. I disabled most push notifications on Android and have the phone muted almost all day. Still, I'm fighting with attention fragmentation, decreased memory etc. Nowadays most apps/web apps you open have a 'notifications' tab, menu item etc. creating yet another inbox for us. (Which we probably don't need unless it's work related or something.)
- nicbou 4y agoYou can block them with uBlock rules. Just right click on them. I silenced a few websites that way. I also removed some feeds and distracting elements.
- D13Fd 4y agoWhy don’t you just delete the apps that are causing that level of anxiety?