Study reveals some teens receive 5,000 notifications daily, most spend almost two hours on TikTok | Kids officially don’t like Facebook::undefined
I turn off almost all notifications. I only allow messaging apps, and system notifications. Even then I find it too much to be honest.
I just have my phone always silenced except for phone calls from contacts.
Exactly same for me. Like, there’s rarely anything urgent enough.
Mostly because they don’t actually know how to disable notifications
5000 seems like way too much. That’s roughly 1 every 15-20 seconds, including at night.
I would be interested to see what percentage of those are actual real interactions (e.g. DMs), which are general interactions (e.g. “XYZ liked your post”) and which are marketing CTAs.
5000? lrn2 opt out. I’m always turning off notifications I don’t care about. most. most apps overdo notifications and need to be silenced as a minimum. having my phone constantly doinking gets old pretty fast
I already get an internal struggle to scream out of frustration every time I see the mail box of one of my colleagues having 100+ unread mails. Most coming from automated systems like Jira, Jenkins, etc. I funnel all those mails into separate folders, and just click through them once in a while. Or mass mark them as read.
I don’t think I could survive 5000 notifications.
Kids don’t like Facebook!?
They don’t like posts that have captions like “wait for it” or “when you see it” for clips where nothing even slightly out if the ordinary happens?
I use FB for the messenger app, and even then most people I know who were on FB ditched it for Instagram ages ago. Basically useless.
Instagram is just Facebook with more pictures though tbf
A plague on both their instances
That’s about 4990 more than I do.
I’ve disabled almost all of them. Even the ones I do get only appear as an icon on my notification bar. I don’t even have lockscreen notifications anymore. I find it too invasive, and feel like the device is demanding my attention.
IMO all notifications should be opt-in. I basically have everything but my phone, text messages, and Outlook email off. The constant buzzing throughout the day was driving me insane.
all notifications should be opt-in.
aren’t they already? for the past few versions of Android, every newly installed app needs to ask you for permission to send notifications, and I’m fairly sure iOS has had it for even longer.
5000 per day?! That’s insane. I feel like I get bombarded with notifications, so I checked how many I got today. Exactly 69.
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Two hours a day? Rookie numbers…
Are those average?
This means there are even kids out there with probably double the amount
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Of course not.
I just use GPT to summarize the article for me. Here’s the results:
- The article reports on a new study by Common Sense Media and the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital tracked the screen time and notifications of 203 Android users aged 11 to 17 for nine days.
- The study found that the average teen used their phone for over four hours per day, with some reaching 16 hours per day. The most popular app was TikTok, which accounted for almost two hours of daily phone use. The study suggests that teens prefer TikTok because it is video-based and requires less reading or typing.
- The study also found that more than half of the participants received more than 200 notifications in one day, with some getting up to 5,000 notifications. The notifications were mostly from friends on social media. Additionally, 59% of the participants had phone activity between midnight and 5 a.m., which could affect their sleep quality.
- The article concludes by mentioning that parents are concerned about the impact of phone use on their children’s schoolwork and sleep, and that TikTok said it sets a screen time limit and disables push notifications at night for teen accounts.
Source: Conversation with Bing, 10/1/2023 (1) Study reveals some teens receive 5,000 notifications daily … - TechSpot. https://www.techspot.com/news/100327-new-study-reveals-teens-receive-5000-phone-notifications.html. (2) TechSpot | Tech Enthusiasts, Power Users, Gamers. https://www.techspot.com/. (3) TechSpot News Archive. https://www.techspot.com/news/.
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5000 notifications per day? That’s over 3 notifications per minute.
Are they opting in to get a notification every time someone in a thousand+ member discord server posts anything at all?
I think it might be notifications for group chats they’re in. Maybe spread over multiple apps? Anecdotally I remember having the same friend group on multiple apps, with a couple of members missing/added in each. So many times the same topic create double or triple notifications. But 5000 is insane…
Totally unrealistic. “Some teens” are the addicts that would have watched TV 16 hours per day if they were born 20 years before, young guys know how to manage notifications and most of them just don’t care about them
*Raises hand shamefully, then looks for the remote.*
5k notifications are 99th percentile. Probably the media is around 100-200 and average should be lower.
My stats say my phone gets ~140/day. I definitely ignore 99% of them, just like my 10k+ unread emails.
5,000 daily is 3.47 per minute for 24/7. Insane?
5k notifications from a Chinese propaganda tool. Not good.
throw your fucking phone away
Because phones aren’t a basic necessity in the Western world in 2023 or anything.
Yes don’t use this specific copy of a computer use this one instead.
