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.
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(on facebook)
friend 1 status: im hungry, who wants to nomnom
friend 2 comment: where do you want to go get some food?
friend 3 comment: lets go get some burgers and beer!
friend 2 and 3's comment are considered to be nomifications
friend 1 status: im hungry, who wants to nomnom
friend 2 comment: where do you want to go get some food?
friend 3 comment: lets go get some burgers and beer!
friend 2 and 3's comment are considered to be nomifications
by Nomificator January 21, 2011
Get the Nomifications mug.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."
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Get the Notification bomb mug.The act of not receiving any Facebook notifications relating to you over a long period of time. Also known as FAS (Forever Alone Syndrome)
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Get the Notification Bankruptcy mug.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.
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