Smartphone notifications are becoming dangerous — and there's an easy fix that could vastly improve your life
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- The average person gets between 65 and 80 phone notifications a day, according to research being conducted at Duke University that was presented at a recent American Psychological Association Conference.
- The researchers found that giving people notifications in three batches during the day made them happier than getting them normally, getting them once an hour, or turning them off completely.
- Turning notifications off completely made people feel stressed and worried about what they were missing.
After you feel a buzz in your pocket or see a flash on your phone, your attention is already fractured.
You could pick up your phone and see if what's called you away is something you really need to address immediately — or you could try and focus on your work, all the while wondering what you're missing out on.
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