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Kids and teens are inundated with phone prompts day and night (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A Common Sense Media report finds about half of 11- to 17-year-olds get at least 237 notifications a day. Some get nearly 5,000 in 24 hours. What does that do to their brains?

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[–] 36 points 3 years ago (7 children)

Turn notifications off

Problem solved.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    First thing I do when I install any app is turn off every form of notification. The only notification left on is the one for text messages and that's only via my watch.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The change to Android where notifications are now a restricted permission by default has been amazing. Just about every notification I get is one I care about because only ~5% of my apps can even do so. Those that send them too frequently quickly become part of the 95%.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    That's the problem. Literally every app comes with notifications enabled by default. You need to explicitly customise the notifications in the app or via the phone's settings.

    If we had a mode that blocked notifications by default like web browsers do, you'll inevitably get "you must enable notifications before you can continue to use this app"!

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