Information Diet | Notifications are evil
58 bookmarks. First posted by andriak february 2012.
Of course not. We're getting so many notifications because the companies that now power the web are engaged in a war with one another to capture our attention. They call it "user engagement" and everybody wants it, so everybody's coming up with as many new ways as possible to capture our attention so that at its base, we can view more advertisements. These notifications are not meaningful requests for your immediate attention, they're things designed to get you to lose half your day to the service that created them. That's evil.
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september 2012 by Gwendoux
These notifications are not meaningful requests for your immediate attention, they're things designed to get you to lose half your day to the service that created them. That's evil.
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september 2012 by patrickrhone
Notifications are evil Feb 20, 2012 Clay Johnson What's your maximum NPH? How many notifications are you exposed to every hour? Let's take a second to think critically about these constant requests…
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february 2012 by PattiN
Notifications are evil Feb 20, 2012 Clay Johnson What's your maximum NPH? How many notifications are you exposed to every hour? Let's take a second to think critically about these constant requests…
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february 2012 by jonathanmuth
The only non-renewable resource you truly have is your time. Next time you're asked to "pay" attention to something, remember that's what you're doing: you're paying.
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february 2012 by joshuarudd
Besides being disrespectful to your attention, notifications like this do something else that's much more nefarious: they train you to be a passive consumer of information rather than an active one. If we don't control the notifications we're receiving, we're forced to react to them... Left at the default, we create an economy of sensational notifications... Can you imagine what would happen if they were instead focused on providing us content worthy of it?
Do yourself a favor: kill the notifications off. Don't participate in the notification economy. Change your relationship from passive to active. Instead of relying on Facebook to command your attention, schedule a meeting with it. If Facebook's important to you, put 15 minutes on your calendar for it and make that the time that you check Facebook. Kill everything you can with a number on it.
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Do yourself a favor: kill the notifications off. Don't participate in the notification economy. Change your relationship from passive to active. Instead of relying on Facebook to command your attention, schedule a meeting with it. If Facebook's important to you, put 15 minutes on your calendar for it and make that the time that you check Facebook. Kill everything you can with a number on it.
february 2012 by miaridge
The only non-renewable resource you truly have is your time. Next time you're asked to "pay" attention to something, remember that's what you're doing: you're paying. Thank you for yours.
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february 2012 by ursamajor
Besides being disrespectful to your attention, notifications like this do something else that's much more nefarious: they train you to be a passive consumer of information rather than an active one.
february 2012
by owneroperator
Notifications are Evil http://t.co/8ZvGeOau (http://t.co/Q6IXG0hy) #trending #guru
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february 2012 by dylanc
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