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I just disable all notifications other than SMS and phone calls and life is good

I have essentially had my smartphone setup like that since I got the first one. It really isn't worth having all these notification disturbing my life.

It really feels like most of us who were early adopters, and therefore the people who other people used to look weird at because of it, learnt how to best use the devices as an addition to our life rather than its foundation due to sheer social pressure to not be considered "the weird guys".

And now the tables have turned, to put it mildly, and a lot of people are growing up with the tech and not enough people around them to point out all the experiences they're missing out on because they're servicing a notification manager.

I often feel that it may have been that we were already addicted to the internet, and thus were a little more inoculated to the newer version.

Conversely, a lot of people who didn't really like computers ten years ago are now hopelessly addicted to their phones. So maybe its just more practice, and we can look forward to more people doing this as times goes on.

If successful phone-based VR takes off though, we're all screwed ;)

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