Definition of

Notification

Warning

A notification can be a document that communicates something.

Notification is the action and effect of notifying (a verb that comes from Latin and means to formally communicate a resolution or give news with a certain purpose).

The concept is also used to name the document in which the communicated resolution is recorded. For example: “I just received a notification from the company, in which they announced a cut in salaries” , “I never received the notification of the cut of the service” , “When reading the notification that was on the table, Luisa broke down. crying.”

Notification concept

The notion of notification, therefore, is linked to a communication or a notice .

By sending a notification, a company , an organization or a person intends to record a certain resolution that has been taken or will be taken in the future. The action by which you declare that you have received a notification is known as making an acknowledgment of receipt .

Different types

A judicial notification , on the other hand, is an act of communication from a court or tribunal. This document must be delivered to the person or published through an edict so that the recipient knows the place, date and time in which they must appear to give a statement or intervene in a judicial case.

In the field of computing , notifications appear related to alerts that certain programs or services issue to warn the user: “A notification from Microsoft reminded me that I should register my copy of Windows,” “Be careful with that page: it has appeared a notification alerting about a possible virus infection” , “I haven't logged in to this profile in a long time: I have five notifications from people who wanted to add me as a contact” .

Warning

Electronic notifications are becoming more common.

Electronic notifications

Electronic notifications exceed the limits of personal computers, since currently various devices , such as mobile phones, video game consoles and tablet PCs, use notifications to keep their users up to date on a diverse series of issues. For example, email management applications can send notifications to the device to let the customer know that they have new messages in their inbox.

Likewise, development companies take advantage of the notification systems offered by these devices to send users news about future releases , or discounts and promotions of all kinds. This is a new way of advertising, since it reaches the customer directly and, in most cases, adapts to their tastes and needs, since it uses their personal information to choose which messages to send them.

The weak point of notifications is that they depend on a persistent Internet connection to arrive at the indicated time; Otherwise, they lose validity and the impact they generate is much smaller or, in some cases, insignificant. For example, if a user who only occasionally connects their device to the Internet receives a notification about a firmware update after it has already been performed, that information becomes obsolete and becomes a nuisance as it takes up space unnecessarily.

Inappropriate content notice

Known as the inappropriate content notification , the complaint that any user can make to a company when they come across a text, video or audio recording that contains offensive messages, to request its removal. This is very useful for companies like Google, which have a large number of self-publishing services, such as YouTube and Blogger, which receive content from millions of users every day, and it is humanly impossible to review each document before approving Well, unless customers were willing to wait months before seeing their creations online.

Among the most common reasons for reporting inappropriate content are racism, mistreatment of any living being, homophobia, and misleading advertising.