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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    I don’t wear mine anymore really, but the use case for it for me was to see notifications quickly and easily without taking my attention away from whoever I am with. You can quickly just glance at your watch to see if the text/phone call/email is important or not and then just twist your wrist to dismiss.

    • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      I used to think I had to decide if I wanted to reply to a notification immediately.

      Besides my smart doorbell notification and actual phone calls everything else can wait an hour until I finish what I’m doing. And for those two exceptions they have special vibration patterns in my pocket.

      Don’t be that guy who has to reply to notifications immediately

      • saunjay1@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Not all notifications need replying to, and it’s sometimes nice to have them be glanceable. I don’t use a smartwatch per say, the battery life on them suck, but my Garmin watch still has some of the same general functionality along with the fitness stuff I mostly have it for. Plus underrated feature for me is using it to ring my phone when I can’t find it ha

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        1 year ago

        The point is I don’t feel the need to reply to almost any notification immediately. There are emergencies that can’t wait sometimes though.

      • Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com
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        1 year ago

        I agree on principal, but unfortunately in today’s world there’s things like work that demand an immediate response. Is it healthy? Nope. Do they care? Nope.