Ghost Notification

An extremely annoying occurrence on facebook. A ghost notification is what happens when you click a notification, and it takes you to the appropriate place, but the notification still stays there, so you click it again, but nothing different happens. You get your hopes all up for another notification and it's just another dumb ghost notification.

YES!!!! ANOTHER NOTIFICATION!!!!

NOOOOOO it's a ghost notification

by thewhom May 26, 2011

phantom notification

When a popular social media app clearly indicates that you have an unread notification, only to reveal there are no new notifications. The only people affected by this are people that never get mentions or RTs, because important people always have hundreds of unread messages at any given time. The Phantom message is a technique the service uses to make you feel popular, even though nobody reads your lame-ass tweets.

Tim: My twizzler is blowing up. Never mind, just another phantom notification.

by bkn June 13, 2014

notification-rape

When you get a stupid amount of notifications on Facebook over a short period of time

When Josh Gates doesn't watch his back Seth, Katarina, and Jessica will notification-rape him.

by Katarina W. August 13, 2010

Notification bomb

The act of getting a group of people to all get on to a certain person's Facebook page and like everything on that page. When that person gets on Facebook later, they will have hundreds of notifications.

Ex. John: "Dude I got onto Facebook and had 143 notifications! I was excited until I realized it was because of you asshole dropping a notification bomb on me."

by Bill Murray Ate My Baby December 13, 2010

Notification Bankruptcy

The act of not receiving any Facebook notifications relating to you over a long period of time. Also known as FAS (Forever Alone Syndrome)

"I declared Notification Bankruptcy after logging on for the first time in weeks."

by Charle Norris October 23, 2011

Notification Effect

Entering an app with the intent of completing a task only to be distracted by the in-app notification. You then leave the app only to return again to try and accomplish your original task.

I went on Twitter to send a DM but I fell victim to the notification effect when I saw that little counter. Only once I closed the app did I remember what I originally needed to do.

by EdDaWord November 15, 2021

Empty Notifications

A series of Facebook notifications one receives which do not relate to the indivual they are addressed to. This can be experienced when the subject comments on a post and a conversation ensues unrelated to yourself.

I commented how stupid I looked in the picture, however the idiots decided to talk about turtles on it. I got empty notifications for weeks

by Chuplis July 16, 2009