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In the face of endless notifications, many smartphone users have learnt helplessness.
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Tim Harford
(FINANCIAL TIMES) - Switching to a new phone is easy enough these days. The wheezing older model formed a huddle with the shiny oversized new thing, and within a few minutes had effected a near-complete digital handover.
One exception was the notification settings. As they reset to the default, my new phone began to beep and buzz incessantly, like the strange offspring of R2-D2 and a cheap vibrator.
