fake notification

Mostly used by macintosh users.

While listening to a podcast or any other audiomaterial hearing the twitterific-, mail-, ichat-, adium-, skype-,
or whatever notification sound from one of the podcasting people and thinking it's a sound from your own computer
– but it is not.

It's related to notification paranoia.

Paul: "Everytime I'm listening to the RebelFM podcast I hear my mailprogram receiving new mails, but It didn't."

Mary: "So you fall for a fake notification?"

Paul: "Wait a sec, I heard a bird tweating"