Study reveals some teens receive 5,000 notifications daily, most spend almost two hours on TikTok | Kids officially don’t like Facebook::undefined
5000? I get annoyed just from one from an app I forgot I had installed.
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My mom’s phone looks like a notification factory exploded in her status bar. I bet she gets a dozen notifications a minute. She has all of her Facebook notifications on, set to push; she has weather notifications from multiple weather apps; she has email notifications, text message notifications, advertising notifications from random stores… it’s hellish. Thankfully all of her notifications are set to silent.
Anyway, having seen my mom’s phone, I can well imagine 5,000 a day in someone who doesn’t know or doesn’t care about notification hygiene.
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As far as I can tell she ignores all but the top two or three at any given time, and just checks individual apps (messaging, email) as desired. So functionally, it’s like she has no notifications.
It was also discovered that more than half of the participants received more than 200 notifications in one day, with some getting an incredible 5,000 notifications in 24 hours.
5000 is 3-4 notifications a minute 24/7. I’m not seeing how a phone could be usable at that point.
I’d go insane if I got 5k notifications in a day
Let’s write 5k comments… evil laughter
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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Yeah, I’m with you. I declared war on notifications during covid and they suddenly became super annoying whilst working from home
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.
Two hours a day? Rookie numbers…
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.*
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
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…
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/.
We need a bot for that. The Bing Assistant is just so useful in certain cases.
5000/day doesn’t sound realistic, c’mon kids are addicted but it’s not >5k per day. That’s like one every ten seconds for your waking hours
I’m honestly wondering since study seem to primarily include Android users. It seems like the only main statistics they showed about notifications was for the most popular ones (including about eight specifically). It feels strongly plausible that 5,000 notifications a day could be coming from eight different apps.
Also, given how a lot of Android notifications are used for things like background updates, or also things like media controls (which are technically treated as notifications). This would also add a bit of plausibility to that metric. Especially in the case of a more digitally savvy user.
