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'''<dfn>notification fatigue</dfn>''' is (AKA <dfn>alarm fatigue</dfn>, <dfn>alarm saturation</dfn>, or <dfn>needy | '''<dfn>notification fatigue</dfn>''' is (AKA <dfn>alarm fatigue</dfn>, <dfn>alarm saturation</dfn>, or <dfn>needy </dfn>) when a person receives so many [[notification]]s that they , interrupt actual work so much that of and . | ||
Receiving too many notifications makes people not want to use a client: | Receiving too many notifications makes people not want to use a client: | ||
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* E.g.: 2014-10-03 https://twitter.com/freebsdgirl/status/518146125036290048 <blockquote>Once again, not checking notifications. Using web, not client. Too many notifications. Will check later.</blockquote> | * E.g.: 2014-10-03 https://twitter.com/freebsdgirl/status/518146125036290048 <blockquote>Once again, not checking notifications. Using web, not client. Too many notifications. Will check later.</blockquote> | ||
* http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/01/24/265702152/silencing-many-hospital-alarms-leads-to-better-health-care | * http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/01/24/265702152/silencing-many-hospital-alarms-leads-to-better-health-care | ||
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== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
* "needy tech" usage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37729095 | * "needy tech" usage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37729095 | ||
** "Everybody is. I'm strongly of the opinion that all this 'needy tech' is a net negative and I try hard to keep it out of my life. But some of it, mostly associated with my kids schooling, is very hard to avoid. 10 emails per week about some school portal with 'an important message' (which you need to separately logged into, of course the message is so important that it can't be entrusted to mere email, even though the account recovery does use that same email) that ends up being nonsense but you're not able to block it because one day an actually important message might show up.<br>Tech should serve us, but meanwhile instead of having terminals to the internet we are now the terminals to the internet. Push notifications and all manner of intrusive interaction have become the norm, not the exception that they should be." [https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacquesm @jacquesm] October 1, 2023 | ** "Everybody is. I'm strongly of the opinion that all this 'needy tech' is a net negative and I try hard to keep it out of my life. But some of it, mostly associated with my kids schooling, is very hard to avoid. 10 emails per week about some school portal with 'an important message' (which you need to separately logged into, of course the message is so important that it can't be entrusted to mere email, even though the account recovery does use that same email) that ends up being nonsense but you're not able to block it because one day an actually important message might show up.<br>Tech should serve us, but meanwhile instead of having terminals to the internet we are now the terminals to the internet. Push notifications and all manner of intrusive interaction have become the norm, not the exception that they should be." [https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacquesm @jacquesm] October 1, 2023 | ||
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notification fatigue is (AKA alarm fatigue, alarm saturation, or needy tech) when a person receives so many notifications that they become unhelpful, interrupt actual work & priorities so much that people start ignoring them; using a social reader and an IndieWeb site instead of silos is one way to reduce notifications and avoid fatigue.
Receiving too many notifications makes people not want to use a client:
- E.g.: 2014-10-03 https://twitter.com/freebsdgirl/status/518146125036290048
Once again, not checking notifications. Using web, not client. Too many notifications. Will check later.
Alternatives
- Criticism: even notification summaries provoke continuous anxiety: https://twitter.com/sammillencramer/status/1557035753200386048
- "Hats off to Adsum & Timex on this." @sammillencramer August 9, 2022
- ^
See Also
- social media fatigue
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue
- "needy tech" usage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37729095
- "Everybody is. I'm strongly of the opinion that all this 'needy tech' is a net negative and I try hard to keep it out of my life. But some of it, mostly associated with my kids schooling, is very hard to avoid. 10 emails per week about some school portal with 'an important message' (which you need to separately logged into, of course the message is so important that it can't be entrusted to mere email, even though the account recovery does use that same email) that ends up being nonsense but you're not able to block it because one day an actually important message might show up.
Tech should serve us, but meanwhile instead of having terminals to the internet we are now the terminals to the internet. Push notifications and all manner of intrusive interaction have become the norm, not the exception that they should be." @jacquesm October 1, 2023
- "Everybody is. I'm strongly of the opinion that all this 'needy tech' is a net negative and I try hard to keep it out of my life. But some of it, mostly associated with my kids schooling, is very hard to avoid. 10 emails per week about some school portal with 'an important message' (which you need to separately logged into, of course the message is so important that it can't be entrusted to mere email, even though the account recovery does use that same email) that ends up being nonsense but you're not able to block it because one day an actually important message might show up.