How to Spot the Effects of Alert Fatigue
Imagine being part of an overactive group chat that causes your phone to buzz every few minutes. In the beginning, you open every message but soon realize that most of them aren't important-or at least are not relevant to you. So, what do you do next? Maybe you let the messages pile up and check them later. Or perhaps, you mute the group chat and ignore the incoming messages altogether. You can blame this tendency to ignore or avoid incoming messages or notifications on one culprit: alert fatigue.