notification fatigue

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notification fatigue is (AKA alarm fatigue, alarm saturation, or needy technology) when a person receives so many notifications that they are no longer helpful, and interrupt actual work so much that the person gets tired of them and starts ignoring them.

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.

AKA alarm fatigue:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue
• http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/01/24/265702152/silencing-many-hospital-alarms-leads-to-better-health-care

Related:

• social media fatigue