I find the whole screen shot of a catchy sentence from twatter as a post with a clickbait headline pretty frustrating too. The title of the post could easily be the content as plain text. How much are a few billion meme reposts of screenshots of text costing the planet? How much data is wasted sending pictures of plain text around the world?
My thoughts exactly. I believe most services that enable sharing this kind of media should default to having content expiring after a sensible TTL. I’m pretty positive that alone would save us from 80% of such useless data.
I find the whole screen shot of a catchy sentence from twatter as a post with a clickbait headline pretty frustrating too. The title of the post could easily be the content as plain text. How much are a few billion meme reposts of screenshots of text costing the planet? How much data is wasted sending pictures of plain text around the world?
My thoughts exactly. I believe most services that enable sharing this kind of media should default to having content expiring after a sensible TTL. I’m pretty positive that alone would save us from 80% of such useless data.