Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by squeaky-clean on Sunday October 01, 2023 @08:44PM (#37732630)

Instagram for me. I don't use it much but have a few friends who message through it, or at least send some memes. If I enable notifications for that, I get daily notifications that someone I might know has joined Instagram, someone I know posted to their story... It's about 1:4 real notifications vs "Please spend more time on our app"

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Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by nathancahill on Monday October 02, 2023 @03:45AM (#37735043)

IG (and FB) at least have decent fine-tuning controls.

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Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by offices on Monday October 02, 2023 @06:25AM (#37736296)

Unfortunately, they ignore them. Threads spams you with these notifications regardless of what you turn off.

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Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by omgmajk on Monday October 02, 2023 @06:36AM (#37736391)

As soon as I get to a point where I would normally get zero notifications from FB/IG, they invent a new way to give me a notification. Always.

Usually it's something like "Group x has a new post, click to read it now!" where X is a group I haven't visited in years and would never give me a notification before. So I click "Only get notifications for friends posts in this group" and then it happens again with one-three other random groups the next week.

It's all about trying to get the user to spend the most amount of time in the app.

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