diff --git a/hosts/common/programs/swaynotificationcenter/swaync-fbcli b/hosts/common/programs/swaynotificationcenter/swaync-fbcli
index d92ffc30..c4fd9d1e 100755
--- a/hosts/common/programs/swaynotificationcenter/swaync-fbcli
+++ b/hosts/common/programs/swaynotificationcenter/swaync-fbcli
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ log() {
 
 # kill children if killed, to allow that killing this parent process will end the real fbcli call
 cleanup() {
-  echo "aborting fbcli notification (PID $child)"
+  log "aborting fbcli notification (PID $child)"
   pkill -P "$child"
   exit 0  # exit cleanly to avoid swaync alerting a script failure
 }