Study reveals some teens receive 5,000 notifications daily, most spend almost two hours on TikTok | Kids officially don't like Facebook

This number is skewed by Notifications John, who receives millions of notifications a day and should not be counted

I can see my phone getting that if I let every app just push whatever they want. I purposefully and carefully go through and ensure I'm only getting notifications for what I need them for.

I average 250 a day. With 3/4 of those being messaging apps.

I feel like I'd install a bunch of shit before getting anywhere close to a tenth of that. I'd hate my phone. However, I'm far from being a teenager and their ways and methods have become somewhat mysterious.

Probably also random games and apps spamming you to play them

60% of the group get less than 300 80% get less than 500

5000 is probably a very very small percent, and probably kids that have a shit load of followers.

Holy shit man. That sounds so stressful

I get a lot, although not that many, but I have sound turned off for most and clear them like once a week or so.

Yeah, I’m with you. I declared war on notifications during covid and they suddenly became super annoying whilst working from home

I disabled lock screen notification for a) privacy; b) so that I could see my nice lockscreen wallpaper

Agreed. The only notifications I have on are for my email and texts. The first thing I do when I download a new app is turn off notifications.

I feel like you have a nice balance that still feels too intense sometimes. I bet I get maybe 30 on a normal day and 50 on a busy day.

Lessoning notifications is one of the things I actively strive for to enjoy life more.

Nice.

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...

I was in middle school when it was getting really popular, now it's like that one guy from High School you try to forget about....

Literal doses of happy chemicals get released because attention. You should watch the Social Dilema if you haven’t already.

You can literally get people hooked on this and retrain on what is good happy time and what is not good happy time. Shit is scary.

I get notifications for precisely two things: Texts and emails. And only emails because of work. Otherwise it would only be texts. I turn off all other notifications the second I install the app because I don't need that shit.

1. disable notifications for most apps. I'm not sure if you can do it for iPhone, but any android phone, you can stop any app from sending any type of notification, even separating based on category. Eg. Turning off all youtube notifications except for security ones.
2. Have your kid read books, this will do wonders in helping them get ahead near the start of their school life, as well as doing wonders on their creativity and imagination.
3. Limit their screen time, and force them to find something else to do with their time. My mum did this to me, I hated it growing up, but I'm incredibly grateful now. It forced me to find ways to have fun without technology.
4. Drop these restrictions down when they are a teenager. Teenagers want freedom. Hopefully, through making your kid read books while growing up, they will choose to read books in their teenage years. I know I did, and both my sisters did.

Although this is the thoughts from someone who is 20, going off their own recent experience and from watching their siblings, I would definitely love to hear thoughts from others about this, tho.

I hope to teach my kids the beauty of Do Not Disturb. I get a lot of notifications but they don't notify me.

I’m no psychologist but to me if you buy your kid a smartphone then you basically risk having him/her destroy his/her brain cells and attention span with Tiktok and Snapchat.

Things this has been said about before: internet, computers, video games, cable TV, broadcast TV, radio, comics, pulp novels, newspapers, the printing press, widespread ability to read/write...

Hell, the first kid to utter a word probably got growled at.

Just because we can't keep up as we get older, doesn't mean the kids are doomed. They live at a faster pace than us, it's always been like this. It's just technology didn't change as fast.

Let's write 5k comments... evil laughter

They've reported it for ages, but it's only been in the last few years that they've actually been not signing up.

Except grandmas

I just have my phone always silenced except for phone calls from contacts.

Exactly same for me. Like, there's rarely anything urgent enough.

Raises hand shamefully, then looks for the remote.

Well it did say some which may make their wild exaggeration of a headline partially true so they can generate more clicks.

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.

There's no thing we can do that we won't enthusiastically overdo.

At some point notifications changed from solely "Look, this person interacted with your thing" to include things like "Look, someone on your friends list added a person you dont know" and i just know this boosted metrics enough to get some jackass a bonus.

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.

Sailing around the world costs money, but you can learn about other places through other people sharing their experiences on tiktok. There are livestreams teaching language, where you can get a much more personalized teaching and your questions answered without judgement for interrupting, there are carpenters sharing useful tricks, and showing how to build things for yourself. There are livestreams showing how to operate a crane at a shipping port, and what that career is like. TikTok has a lot more than the dancing, meowing, and giggling, although if that's what you watch a lot of and interact with, it will happily give you only that, but that's a user problem, not a platform problem.