Dinging in My Ears

Did you know that your phones can give you notifications, can tell you something just happened or that a thing asks for your attention? It's true! But is that good?

I purposely set up notifications for certain things. If I get a text message, I get a ding. If someone comments on a Facebook post, I get a ding. If I spend five bucks at Dollar General with my Cash app, I get a ding that I've spent money, even though I fully realize that's what I just did.

It's all to a purpose, right? It's so I can keep up on things and make sure there isn't anything nefarious going down which might adversely affect my life. The trouble is that I've now set up so many notifications I've lost track of them.

My cell routinely dings and I can't find out what it's trying to tell me. There's supposed to be a little red dot at the corner of an app to let me know, hey Marty, an item of extreme importance requires your immediate attention. Yet too many times I hear a ding and can't find it. 

I suppose that I've set too many alerts on too many apps. The trouble it is I don't know which ones or how to shut them off. Then there's the fact that before all these up to the minute notifications life and I were getting along just fine. It does make me pine for the old days.