Notifications

Notifications on our phone are weird. They're really intrusive. I may be reading or praying and then all of a sudden, "ding, ding" and like Pavlov's dog I grab the phone.

It might be really important. So I really need to check it.

Then...

Just a stupid cat video.

A number of weeks ago I took a Facebook break. When I returned to Facebook, I turned off the notifications on my phone for the app. As a result, I spend significantly less time on Facebook. Why? Because I'm not notified of the newest cat video.

Yesterday as my email and other notifications were pinging away I became to thinking, "What other notifications need to be turned off?"

I wonder if email and all other social networks notifications were turned off if the world would end?

I'm curious have any of you shut down large bits of notifications from your mobile device? Did the world end?