My old person trait is that I think 'ghosting' is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.
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I don't have notification enabled on most of my apps. I will check on them when I want, but I hate seeing or hearing notifications because they are distracting me. If something is urgent, call me, otherwise it can wait.
This. You do not need to react to most things in the first place, much less some noise a social media company wants to show you.
Notifications drive me crazy. I just keep my phone perpetually on silent. The only app that gets an exception is how my county pages first responders.
But then you don't know that people in your linked in network find some random interesting.
I only have it enabled for social apps when someone actually is talking to me, but I just don't understand why there are notifications for these recommendations or suggestions from some algorithm.
These notifications are there so you will spend more time scrolling through their app, so they will occupy more of your limited mental space and social interactions, and serve you more ads/harvest more data about you to sell to info brokers and advertisrs.
Giving strangers the ability to make your phone make noise is insane
Well said. I'm going to use that line in the future.
I normally have my phone constantly in the "Alarms only" disturb mode. This has the disadvantage that it may take days, until I decide to check if anyone attempted to contact me.