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To those of us with ADHD this firehose of notifications and distractions feels like a deliberate attack on our agency. It does make me feel like I want to die,
by iwontberude 2y ago
To those of us with ADHD this firehose of notifications and distractions feels like a deliberate attack on our agency. It does make me feel like I want to die, not because I’m depressed or suicidal generally but because I can’t imagine aging gracefully with this escalating source of entropy.
- fuzzy_biscuit 2y agoThis is precisely why I'm sidling up to the idea of an old flip phone. The deluge of "communication" that is force-injected into my eyes every day is an immense waste of my mental energy. I hate this age of attention assault.
- zelphirkalt 2y agoMay I suggest a well configured uBlock Origin and additionally to cut out some websites completely from your life? Doesn't solve the problem in general, but it will hopefully make you feel better. And it will make your browsing faster, because you are not loading all that crap.
- sgc 2y agoI had the thought for much the same reason. It amounts to a denial of service attack on the human psyche. There are places with laws about advertising pollution in public spaces. That needs to extend beyond advertising to a more general set of aggressive attention grabbing features, and to our digital lives, where we spend a huge amount of our time. It's not going to self-regulate. Ironically, the ubiquitous GDPR popups sort of broke a dam that have led to popups of all sorts being forced on us all over the place.
- marcosdumay 2y ago> feels like a deliberate attack on our agency It is. The idea of pushing more contracts than you can read, all of what you must accept just to survive is a deliberate attack on our agency. You are just more sensitive to it.