Mildly Infuriating

I don't think this post is a good fit. The name of the community is "mildly infuriating", not "absolutely enraging"!

Its not just notifications. Its also them watching entire videos at high volume in waiting rooms, ads and everything. That or its endless scrolling and completely unrelated audio blasts chained together doing literal psychic damage to everyone around.

It drives me fucking NUTS. The worst part is they're the ones that will be the first to complain about kids these days being glued to their phones.

A neat thing about living in Japan is that there are announcements and signs everywhere telling you to please keep your phone silent and to turn down the volume on your headphones so that noise doesn't leak out either. 'Silent mode' is literally called 'manner mode.'

I'm going to start a community called, UnnecessarilyGenerational. This would be post #1.

I suspect that a large part of the problem is a combination of hearing loss and a lack of subconscious awareness of their phone. In both cases (and especially combined), they would likely not even hear the notification if it was at a volume you or I would consider reasonable. So, from their perspective, it is quiet. Any quieter and it would be too quiet to notice.

Of course, anyone capable of basic empathy would also realise that such a perspective is their subjective experience of the world and simply turn the volume off/down until later to avoid annoying other people. Sadly, many of their ilk seem to have forgotten the lessons they taught us as kids.

For the record, not a boomer, but why are you targeting that group? Everywhere I go it is someone, just as often young as old, that thinks I want to hear their notifications, tiktok, or whatever bullshit of the day they want everyone to hear.

Yes but it isn't only boomers. Teenagers do this all the time in public transport (usually watching loud videos) and they don't have any excuses like for example being half deaf or not knowing how to mute their phone. It is one of the reasons why I prefer driving. I don't want to have an argument with some stupid shit every time I get on the metro.

Nah it's Gen Z and their loud iPhone bell notifications.

WE'RE IN CLASS!! SILENCE YOUR PHONES DAMMIT!

I don't know if this is just boomers. I remember a person my age in Uni some years ago who just sat there with her freaking iPhone not silent, end every few minutes a message came with a loud "DING!"

My mom tried to watch Chinese drama shows on public transport. I told her to stop it before some pissed off hillbilly use violence (for context: at the time, there were some news reports of people getting shot for blasting loud music from their car)

Oh, my absolute favorites are the people that have the volume all the way up and send text messages. You get to hear the send/receive text alert over and over. Then there’s the ones that get the phone call with the obnoxiously loud ring, take forever to find their phone, look at it (still ringing loudly) to see who is calling, and don’t silence the ring while they decide whether or not to answer.

My mom is 75. She knows nothing about how cell phones work. She thinks to charge your phone you need to turn the phone off first.

She doesn't understand that airplane mode turns off your voice and data radios.

She holds the phone like a star trek communicator, NOT on speaker, and then complains she can barely hear you.

I think the boomers brains are just mush.

Edit: forgot to mention she turns the airplane mode ON and then turns the whole phone OFF. Once it's off, that's when she plugs it in.

Then she complains that turning her phone on always takes a while. My brother in law installed an app that just turns airplane mode off upon boot. That "taking a while" is the radios turning back on.

Otherwise, she used to call him from her landline (yeah) weekly to say her phone was broken. Everhtime it was just still in airplane mode. She does what she wants, doesn't understand any of it, and you can't explain it or talk her out of doing it her way.

......and people on this site were trying to convince me to teach her linux. Hell I don't even know what I'm doing on linux. That would be like the blind leading the stubborn.

My coworker does this with video and shit too it kills me...

5 guys in the same area, 4 of us know how headphones work, but Oldie McDust has to make us listen to his crap music and whatever video he's listening to at the time...

He figured out how tictok works, even got himself a damn Bluetooth speaker but can't bother to take the hint from the rest of us and get headphones...

I took a commuter train to the big city the other day and I couldn't believe how many other commuters were scrolling through TikTok with speaker on, or video calling their parents with speaker on. Nobody else wants to hear your shitty music videos.

Don't try to hang Android phones on boomers. Boomers are dipshits with tech and iphones are designed for toddlers. Majority of boomers use iPhones.

And stupid kids blasting their calls on loudspeaker, holding their phones like absolute idiots

It’s so fucking annoying. Your phone shouldn’t really make ANY sound as far as I’m concerned, but I’ll allow a low volume ring or single beep or bloop for a notification. But if your phone feels the need to make a sound every 20 seconds while you’re looking at the fucking thing, you need to turn that shit off.

Notifications etc I can understand if you don’t know how to use tech properly.

What I don’t understand is how every older person seems to have loud speakerphone conversations in public. They had landlines most of their lives so why do this?

Ha ha ha, generalizations are fun and hateful.

While yes I feel you on this ... the boomers are probably going deaf and need the extra volume... the asshats who have the phone on speaker like a goddamn walkie talkie in those same public places should be drawn and quartered.

Generally a bigger push towards "maybe don't be a pubic nuisance" for everyone: regardless of age/generation couldn't hurt.

Thats cause they old and cant hear shit…. We are all headed that way.

I was at the Dr office Monday. While in the waiting room, at full volume, everyone experienced:

"Hello Moto" "Hello Moto" "Hello Moto" "Hello Moto" "Hello Moto"

I know boomers do it but I also see every generation do it. I know boomers do it because it's a accessibility reasons due to age and poor hearing and the phone will not get loud enough for them to actually hear it without speakerphone.

I fucking hate it regardless but how else are people with poor hearing able to actually hear anything on these phones though.

Usually most of the time the main problem I have is fucking people playing music on there phones, usually people 25 or younger who just don't care about others. I get more of them then actually boomers doing it.

Learning technology when you grown up without it and then expecting to learn all about it when your aging and getting older and brains just don't work as well.

Regardless of who it's fucking annoying and I hate it but I mainly blame the companies who don't incorporate better accessibility for people and society (mainly past society) just never teaching people and society as a whole for this fucking American shit culture we have.

I had the Samsung notification whistle down pat back in the S3/S4/S5 era. Everyone had that as their default and it was so easy to fuck with people.

Do you not care?

bingo. they dont give a fuck.

I had a professor whose phone would go off every one or two minutes during lecture. Same guy would use the word "literally" in every other sentence (always incorrectly). So many annoying things in that class.

The generation who refuses to use headphones and uses phones on speaker mode is complaining about the noise coming from other peoples phones?

Yea I honestly have seen a huge uptick of it in the last few months. Like why the fuck are you setting your email notification to machine gun volleys or fucking crowd cheers.