The numbers inside the angry notification bubbles on our phones and computer screens have become meaningless.
I’m not even the worst offender. A survey of friends and co-workers found unread text messages, social media notifications and DMs in the double-digits. Two people had more than 300,000 ignored emails.
By now we all know there’s no prize for reading everything, and that tackling every piece of digital information thrown our way isn’t doable, let alone desirable. Life is too short to waste on unwanted bids for our attention, especially from corporations.
But letting these numbers tally up doesn’t always help. For anyone stressed out by their numbers — which are often an anxiety-inducing shade of red — we have some advice on getting rid of them.
