Taking screenshots of everything is no different than elders printing out emails.
Taking screenshots of everything is no different than elders printing out emails.
I am quite a data hoarder, but I take so many screenshots that I'll probably never look at again, and it occurred to me that this might be my generation's "printing emails" thing.
Yeah, no. Some text services and websites can/do remove content, so you might not be able to return to something at a later date without saving it locally. Once an email has been received on your end, that's it: you have the email locally (or at least in your email provider); it can no longer be removed by the person that sent it.
If I screenshot an exchange on Bluesky where someone is saying wildly racist shit, they can later block me, delete the top-level comment and all the sub-comments, but I'll still have that digital proof. If someone gets doxxed on Reddit and you screenshot it, you've got that forever, even when Reddit deletes the doxxing five minutes later. (They did that with someone that found out who Administrative Results was, and posted all the links backing up their claims. Also, Admin Results in a shitty person, and that's why he and Garand Thumb/Mike Jones get along so well.)
I never understood the appeal of taking a screenshot rather than just saving the image or text or whatever directly.
My mom doesn’t know how to save an image to her phone or iPad, so she will use her camera on the phone to photograph something on her iPad to send to my aunt.
My mom once photocopied a picture from an ipad. I didn't even know that's possible
OCR makes this strategy way more useful than it otherwise would be haha
Sometimes I screenshot and crop a picture I want to save if there is no alternative to saving it as a .webp
I have done that more times then I count or when I website won't let me download something.
When pixel count doesn’t matter, that’s probably the easiest way to do it.
There are web browser addons which can change the export to a png, but if all else fails, imagemagick after saving the image takes less time than screenshotting and cropping.
These days elders are printing screenshots of emails (and wondering why they’re cut off).
Printing your bills and documents can save you a lot of trouble when needed.
My fiancee refuses to use a Notes app on her mobile phone. Instead, she SMS texts notes to her own number.
She also likes to screenshot and text news headlines instead of copy / paste.
I blame that on the note taking app, and i use mine regularly.
Honestly, I SMS myself occasionally 😬
Know any good notes apps?
I really like Obsidian.md
Get off my lawn!
No I will not. I will take a picture of it to then take a screenshot, just cuz.
I'll have you know that I took a screenshot of this and faxed it to my greatgrandchildren so now you're gonna get it.
Out of curiosity, what do you take screenshots of? That's not something I've heard of people doing compulsively.
Maybe that's just a me thing. Other than just stuff to try and remember for later, it's usually pretty dumb. Stuff like: items in some online store, images on a search page generally (not downloading anything specific, just snapping a shot from the general view), etc. It's kinda hard to explain, but let's just say out of a set of 70,000 pictures, at least 50,000 are screenshots.
I'm the same way, but I only have about 6k Screenshots, so I have a lot of work ahead of me.
I tend to do that with real life objects. For example, I might snap a photo of a price tag in a store, walk over to the next store and compare prices.
I tend to do that with real life objects. For example, I might snap a photo of a price tag in a store, walk over to the next store and compare prices.
I take pictures of things I want to find faster over hunting for emails or text messages while on vacation and there's maybe spotty Internet. i also do this for cooking directions.