Push notifications are ruining our lives….
And honestly I believe it.
Hello and welcome back to IO, I am your host for the day, Rebecca Felgate and I am wondering
how many of you got a notification for this video?
Our lives are filled with notifications, right?
Although hopefully our videos are the good, manageable kind!
Before we get into this video, I would love to hear which aps you have notifications for.
I have them for Whats App and Instagram and they drive me mad….
But for some reason I still have them turned on!
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Okay…so… you are going about your life….
Maybe you are at school, maybe you are at work, maybe you are just trying to take 5
minutes to yourself?
But…oh….buzz…notification….
you are disturbed.
Well… now studies are showing that even something as simple as a notification your
phone can throw you off for hours.
Not only that, they could be literally ruining your life.
Florida State University 2015 research shows that notifications have a negative impact
on productivity even if you don’t pick up the phone.
Notifications come in all forms – comments on social media, likes on pictures, new followers,
news flashes, activity from someone you are following.
For a lot of us, it can lead to a lot of social media noise.
I don’t know about you but I have my life – where in I go to work, meet my friends
for social activities, go to the gym, go out for dinner….
You know… the present.
Then I have my social media life, which sort of hangs around in the air as I live my normal
life…. and a notification reminds me that it exists, even if I’m busy trying to actually
exist… then all of a sudden I am trawling through who has viewed my Instagram story,
checking out my ex boyfriends new girlfriend, listening to Kanye’s new song, talking a
buzzfeed quiz that sorts me into my Hogwarts house by asking me what I had for breakfast…..and
suddenly I am in a hole I didn’t ask to be in….
just cause snazzysue101 liked my tweet.
A 2016 Deloitte found that people look at their phones 47 times a day on average; for
young people the numbers are more like 82 times a day.
Social media and internet lives are infiltrating our actual lives and studies are showing it
is not only having a negative impact on our school work and jobs, but also our home lives
and our mental health in general.
They are ruining quality time spent with friends and family.
So….what can we do?
Manage our push notification settings in order to save our soul.
There is no easy way to en mass turn off notifications, but it is possible if you got to your phones
control centre and choose ap by ap.
I’ve just turned off all of mine, except for my spirit Junkie Ap, which sends me a
daily reminder to be mindful, along with an affirmation.
I love the Youtube channels I get notifications from, but I get the notifcations sent to my
emails and have notifcations turned off for social alerts, so later I can browse my inbox
when I have time to see what I have missed!
Guys – will you be managing your notifications after this video, or are you good as you are?
Before I go, I just want to read some comments from a video I did yesterday about James Charles
and his fight for equal pay between celebrities and influencers.
Joseph Tran said: Plain and simple...James Charles IS MONEY HUNGRY AND GREEDY?
Kelly Ingram wrote: imo youtubers are definitely underpaid, considering the amount of time
and resources they put into their content..?
Finally Diana Espinosa said: I think people who actually make a difference in the world
should make more money then these no skills....?