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.

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    14 days ago

    Out of curiosity, what do you take screenshots of? That’s not something I’ve heard of people doing compulsively.

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      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.

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        14 days ago

        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.

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        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.

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      14 days ago

      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.