I’m Tired of Facebook’s Clickbait Email Notifications

• Helpful email notifications from social media have been ruined by Facebook’s clickbait tactics.

• Facebook intentionally withholds important information in notifications to drive more site visits.

• Turn off annoying emails by managing notification settings under Notifications in Settings.

I don’t go on Facebook very often, so every now and then I see an email notification telling me something interesting happened. But the email always tells me nothing and waits for me to go to Facebook. Instead, this clickbait junk mail is making me stay away from Facebook even more than before.

Email Notifications for Social Media Are Really Helpful

Email notifications from social media used to be something I actually preferred. I tend to turn notifications My phone is turned off for everything except the most important apps.

Since Gmail implements separate inboxes for social media and other types of mail, it was nice to take a few minutes at the end of the day and see if there were any emails in my social media inbox worth responding to.

By doing this, I spend less time looking at my phone every five minutes and can only view the social media notifications that are truly important to me.

Facebook Notifications Are Intentionally Hiding Important Information

Facebook had similarly helpful emails, but I had deactivated my account years ago and hadn’t been on the site in over half a decade. I recently decided to reopen my account to stay in touch with friends and family, and I log in to it maybe once a week. However, I was receiving messages similar to this.

Great, someone I know on Facebook commented on a post. It doesn’t say what they said or to whom they said it. I have no idea why this is relevant to me. Worse, Facebook makes things even more mysterious by putting the first few words of its posts in the subject line. If I always click on one of these it will be a random comment that I will never see or care about.

These Emails Make Me Want to Use Facebook Less

Frankly, the reason Facebook sends me a notification that someone has posted a photo or responded to a post is to get me to click and log into the site. That way they can get at least a few ad impressions and maybe I’ll stick around to look at other things in my feed while I’m there.

The only thing Facebook has actually achieved here is discomfort. I think one of the reasons I get so many seemingly random emails from Facebook that aren’t related to people who tagged or messaged me is because I’m a low-frequency user. So I feel like I’m frowning, and frankly that makes me less likely to click on one of those email links. Especially considering the few times I’ve bothered to do this, the actual thing emailed to me turned out to be a huge nothing burger.

Let’s Turn Them Off (Here’s How)

Although I probably won’t go delete my facebook account Again, these disgusting emails make me sick enough to want them gone. Here’s how to turn them off in seconds. In this case, I use a web browser instead of an app, but the general process is the same.

Click on your profile picture, then click on “Settings & Privacy”.

In the next menu that opens, click “Settings”.

Now click “Notifications”.

On the next page, you can review each notification type and remove email as one of the notification options; but if you want all this to stop, go to the “Where you get notifications” section and turn on the “Email” option. “to collapse.

Here, under ‘Email frequency’, change your preference to ‘Required notifications’.

Now all the “we think you might be interested” content should stop showing up in your mailbox, and you can visit Facebook yourself when you’re feeling good and ready.