Has anyone else noticed that Facebook notifications seem intentionally broken? So many times I've noticed that the number of new notifications go out of sync between FB on my desktop browser, mobile browser and messenger app. Even viewing the notifications on the desktop and navigating somewhere else seems to make some notifications new again. Anything to make that red dot appear again to get you clicking and engaged.
I've noticed a larger trend where notifications used to be notifications of something a human sent, but now it means "$SOCIALNETWORK wants your attention"
For example if I don't tweet for a few days Twitter will give me a "notification" that several high follower count accounts I follow have tweeted.
That's not a "notification". I'm well aware frequent posters post frequently.
Totally. I wasn’t on Facebook for the last month or two. Get on and I had around 75 notifications. Literally 3 of them were non repeats or something that I was interested in receiving from someone. But it’s cool - it reminds me how pointless Facebook really is.
