Chaos Daily Essay | Turn off notifications

In December last year, because the scholarship application was approved, I finally had some spare money to buy "not so necessary items" in the four years of college. From the original bundle, plus a cheap mobile phone within 2,000 yuan, one more zero became the iPhone 11.

(I checked it out at random , and suddenly felt that I used to be really easy to save, but now I am not living a luxurious life. I will write a short article when I have time about the changes in the values I want to convey.)

I used to use cheap mobile phones in the past, but only after I met Apple did I realize that "the original mobile phone is not stuck" is this feeling. In the past, it took more than 3 seconds to open the app on the mobile phone, and now it is used for 1 second and crashes for 2 seconds.

Over time, I felt an inexplicable feeling of irritability when using my mobile phone. I wondered where this feeling came from, but found that the crash was not the main cause of this feeling. It's because I'm prone to get addicted to that "can be needed by others" mentality , and I never want to be tied to anything, but I still need to respond to those boring messages, and I feel irritable.

The information of social software carries other people's expectations of themselves, and they look forward to being more needed because of their responses, and they yearn to be the most unique existence in the eyes of all people.

I once thought that the antipathy to ordinary mobile phones would cover people's need to connect with social groups, and I thought that I didn't have to frequently create a certain artificial or glamorous surface image like others. Looking back, I found that the craving has never been digested. The feeling is hidden by the subconscious does not mean forgetting, in fact, it is waiting to be released.

Although socialization is an inevitable need, not the most crucial, it can easily become a narcotic.

After I changed my mobile phone, I spent a lot more time in the online world than in the past. After the iPhone counted the screen usage time, I realized that I could no longer be "self-sufficient", and I thought to myself: Do I just spend time all day on this one? Do you believe more than anyone that "where the time is spent, where is the major", so the major is "swiping the phone"?

In April, I exiled myself to Huadong. I wanted to relax completely, so I turned off all social software notifications on my mobile phone. After returning to Taipei, I couldn’t go back, and I didn’t want to reopen it at all. More than once was reminded by familiar people: why not look at the phone! I just kissed you!

The more comfortable it is to count down the seconds without feeling embarrassed, it seems to be an indicator of whether people are familiar with it.

Eagerly looking for the person who wants to send the message, but pressing the "send" text is a request for a functional relationship, the so-called "friendship" has been transformed into a carefully packaged profit, and further, whether social software is violently quantified again relationship between people?

Compare which words can attract the attention of others the most, and confirm the meaning of their existence because they are needed by others. I can't extricate myself from the sense of stability brought by push notifications.

It is impossible to refuse any attention from the community. Everyone's eyes look at the external environment, and no one focuses on their own inner world.

Whether it's turned on or off, let the notification be just some kind of superficial reminder. As for the "comparison" mentality that permeates every eye that focuses on the moment of jumping out of the notification on the mobile phone, and is deeply lost and the ego has nowhere to escape, I think this will be another interesting topic for another short article.