And one more thing ring ring ring

In this age of all these things which purport to be one thing yet in actuality are something quite different, in which things which are claimed to advance one thing or another accomplish rather the detraction of such things, there is one more thing that can be added to the list:

The non-provacative provocation.

Today, yet again, I missed an important call. I have no less than 4 telephones in my apartment which are supposed to ring when I get a call, and I did not hear any of them. On my mobile phone which is set to also ring, I did not hear it. Nor did I hear the message notification.

I went into the settings and was going through all the ringtones and notification sounds and I realized something. Something is screwed.

What, reader, is a ringtone? What is a notification? At their essence they are supposed to provoke. If they do not provoke then they do not serve their function. The entire point of being notified is that it provokes you.

Is provocation pleasant? Is it something you want to make you feel all dingly inside? Or is it something you want to actually alert you, because that is important?

But the people who sit in their cubicles and create these inane ringtones and notifications, are exceeding to create the ultimate non-provacative provocations. Wtf? Seriously.

Actually, ok I guess I can understand that there may be circumstances in which one wants a nice-dingly-feeling type notification. There are times when yes one wants the notification to be less provocative. Like if you actually are sitting in a cubicle all day.

But not everyone does. And there is no way that 98% of the ringtones are suitable for the many conditions that people are in when they need to know, without fail, when there is an incoming call or message.


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