This happens because you have notifications enabled, but you may not be aware of this prior to feature being offered. Receiving notifications usually occurs when a website offers you the feature upon visiting it.
These notifications can be disabled.Įnabling Social Network Notifications in Chrome Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, even online collaboration tool Slack – they want you to know when you have a message, and thanks to a new Chrome update, these apps can tell you even if you don’t have the right app installed.Īll they need is for you to be signed into Chrome, and for you to have agreed to receive notifications.īut what if agreeing to these updates isn’t what you intended? What if their incessant beeps and whirrs is what made you sign out of the social network’s apps in the first place? Could you be ready to flush your smartphone away, almost hammered into submission by the news that Eric from accounts has uploaded a new Simpsons/Discworld mashup?
Your social networks want your attention.
