[bsuvc]

I don't see how people use social media apps with notifications turned on.

I just disable all notifications and it doesn't bother me to have LinkedIn because I only open it when I feel like it. Same with Facebook, etc.

Incredibly, the default is always for notifications to be enabled, and I don't know how people live like that.

[Telaneo]

It's not too bad after some (a lot of) adjustments, but I agree the problem is that the default is that notifications are on. I'm part of more than a dozen Discord servers, and only three of them have notifications enabled, and one of those are basically dead. If I joint a new one, the first thing I do is mute it, and then I'll maybe unmute it if I'm actually active in there (or if it's a large server, I'll unmute the specific channels I care about and mute everything else).

I have email notifications on, but I actually read the few newsletters I get, and I barely get any mail beyond that. Meanwhile, everybody else I see has 4000 unread emails and the vast majority are unread rubbish that they could have unsubscribed to 700 emails ago, or just never subscribed to to begin with, but I guess signing up for that shit is just the default now.

[throwacct]

I go even further: I only use the website. If I want to add or modify something, I go to my profile and do it. I only used 2 social network apps, and they are mostly for news and to check on tech people I follow.

[duxup]

My wife's phone, is just full of noise. Notifications, messages, email ... some folks just want to be in front of a fire hose of crap... I don't know why.