Breaking Snooze [2025: Alert Fatigue from News Notifications]

 

TITLE: Breaking Snooze

SETTING: Breakroom, one phone face-down, the other duct-taped to a coffee mug

CHARACTERS: Tech Guy (left), Grandpa (right)

PANEL 1:

TECH GUY: “I got 12 alerts about the same story.”

GRANDPA: “I got one. It said ‘Turn off notifications.’ So I did.”

PANEL 2:

TECH GUY: “Aren’t you worried you’ll miss something important?”

GRANDPA: “If it’s that important, it’ll knock.”