I just posted this on GigaOm: Emails, tweets, notifications, text and instant messages, Facebook status updates, Path moments — all these are new tools of communication when taken together are notification hell. These notifications prey on human desire for a dopamine fix. And just as we are over-caffenited, I think the 21st century is quickly making us over-notified. (I think this is my second new phrase of the week – the first one being aspriational escape velocity)
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no kidding.
IFTTT.com can put you in true notification hell… trust me.
Hear a great quote yesterday from Chief Scientis at Salesforce.com JP Rangaswami, “there is no information overload, just a filtering problem. He’s right. That’s why Twitter invested in Summify for example, a daily ‘digest’ is a great tool
@Jeff, If ($notification_received), then (aggregate_and_give_me_a_digest_at_the_end_of_the_day_and_mark_everything_as_read_when_received) 🙂
Heard a great quote yesterday from JP Rangaswami (Chief Scientist at Salesforce.com) at the Mindtree summit; “there is no information overload, but a lack of good filters”, that’s so true and one reason I feel why Twitter acquired Summify (twitter daily digest tool).
Hi my name is Ted, and I’ve been suffering from notification since I first got online. I believe I’m a recovering notification addict, but all I can do is take each day as they come. And if I get through that day in control, then it was a good day.
(My best action is to turn off notifications immediately from any service I use, and try and control when I go look for events instead of them coming to me.)
I empathise with the frustration of a constant stream of notifications.Your tweet posted just as Iwas considerng opting out of Google+ and/or Facebook…
I was quoting Clay Shirky when I spoke about filter failure. I mentioned him during the talk, but references to the talk don’t carry the attribution. The credit should go to Clay.