Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet:
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.
I’ve turned off the sound for all notifications (except for texts and calls) on my iPhone. They still show in the notification center, but they don’t ping me.
Don’t let notifications live your life.
