10 honest Facebook notifications we all need

 By 
Brian Koerber
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Long gone are the days when receiving a notification from social media was exciting, especially that little red number on Facebook.

It seems like day after day, no matter what happens in your real life, Facebook notifications stay the same. They are an endless stream of event invites you'll never go to, birthday reminders for people you don't care about and notifications that your creepy stalker liked a 2009 photo from your family vacation.

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Now that the monotony of social media notifications have had a few years to drill themselves into your brain, we decide to reword them a bit more accurately.

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