Clawing for Attention

I understand the need for every app, especially the news ones, to claw for attention. I think the worst offenders do so and have sponsored/suggested ads peppered in through their content.

The Yahoo! Newsroom app is the worst of all the ones I have. Once I open it, I think I get 20-25 notifications within two or three days of news it believes I want to look at. Some of it is just the Yahoo! content, a good deal being videos. I’ve never been a fan of video news. Television news is fine, but video news in general has been iffy for me. Newsy has been an exception, though I haven’t quite given them as much attention as I had in the past.

Another offender is LinkedIn. They don’t do notifications quite as often, but they like to randomly have their badge light up just so anal-retentive people like me who want it gone can open the app. That then starts the cycle, because once one opens the app, more notifications come in. Pinterest too.

But it’s all free, so I really shouldn’t complain, right? Or turn off the notifications and badges? But then I might miss something.

Attention-Whoring

So, they'd kicked Kathy Griffin off. What else is new?

I've always been a person who's tried to keep low-key, partly because attention seems to be very energy-draining and often it's gotten me some kind of grief. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with attention, but it's how one garners it and what one does with it that makes the difference.

Being a jackass for the sake of attention is not a good thing.
Arguing with someone just because it seems like fun even though you're not really making any good points, or that you're not listening to the other side, taking in their viewpoints, and actually debating with that person constructively is not good.

Some people's attention-whoring is almost like seeing someone who can't stand silence, and so pushes over a glass just to break the silence.

Which is childish.

Attention whores are just another facet of humanity, but God bless them...