# Better terms for watching (and tracking?)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-terms-for-watching-and-tracking/61038
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [4월 15, 2017, 5:17오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-terms-for-watching-and-tracking/61038 "2017-04-15T17:17:08Z")
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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [4월 15, 2017, 5:45오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-terms-for-watching-and-tracking/61038/3 "2017-04-15T17:45:53Z")

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I agree the current terminology isn’t particularly clear. I feel “Subscribing” is probably more suitable, but still not completely clear.

Facebook opts for a very explicit “Turn on notifications for this post” - there’s no possibility for confusion there!

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/7/777c50033689c9cf231e7663e4ce0226ac8c43f9.png)

Twitter opts for something very similar: “Turn on mobile notifications”

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/c/2cff11d8462756620c1af98769c6c10f8b2a6e30.png)

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Alongside the wording, I think it’s worth considering how the ideas of “watching” and “tracking” have changed with the recent introduction of push notifications (whether through [discourse-push-notifications](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-push-notifications/46692), the mobile apps, or [some other method](https://meta.discourse.org/t/telegram-notifications-plugin/60483)).

I think there now needs to be some kind of distinction between what a user would want to receive a push notification for, and what they might want to receive an email for. Right now, both email and push notifications fall under the ‘watching’ label.

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