Facebook often tests out experimental features on a small paring of its billion users before roll it out to the rest of the macrocosm . Today , it ’s notification sounds . It ’s awful . Please , please countenance this remain a badexperiment .
notice sound are generally horrible , harkening back to a time when we received notifications so infrequently that they actually deserved a audio ( believe someone signing off of AIM , and a doorway slamming ) . But our digital lives today are a cascading muddy sinkhole of notification , a whirl of stuff fall out — a lot of which is haphazardness . So why accompany it with actual noise ?
The auditory sensation you hear above will , if Facebook makes this lasting , go off every metre almost anything come about to you . A friend postulation . A comment or like on something you pen . These are n’t occasional events — these are things that chance to even Facebook users all day . This signify you ’ll be getting this sound , which is resonant of an error from a mid-90s PC , throughout your day . No . No .
VentureBeat ’s Sean Ludwig , who is part of the notification beta bloop , notes that you may switch the crap off :
you could turn them off by going into Account preferences > Notifications . Simply click “ scene ” on the top tab and then uncheck the box that says “ Play a sound when each new notification is received . ”
But whereas he thinks this is an “ easy ” opt - out , I ’m not so certain — Facebook ’s users have a notoriously problematic time navigate the site ’s configurations when it come to thing as significant as familiar privacy . assume they ’ll be capable to skate in and ferment off this infuriating DEH - NEH auditory sensation is a recipe for a band of aggravation .
Facebook , we do n’t need sound . Nobody like sounds . No sound . [ VentureBeat ]
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