I’m a gossip, and I use screenshots for good and for evil. I’m particularly fearful of screenshots because I take them all the time: I screenshot acquaintances’ Instagram stories that I think are stupid, or Twitter fights that give me secondhand embarrassment, or text conversations on which I need a second opinion-or third or fourth or fifth. It’s a fact we all live with but force ourselves to forget, in order to keep texting and posting and chatting and screenshotting in (something like) peace.
The idea that anything and everything you do online could be-and let’s face it, probably is-captured by someone, somewhere, and then stored for future use, has imbued our lives online with a latent sense of paranoia. The feature never materialized, which we can be sure of because we still live in a society.īut screenshots themselves are very real, and sometimes equally terrifying. Others dug in their heels and promised never to stop screenshotting their texts: “iOS 11 is gonna have screenshot alerts so if you get a notification from me you can pull up honestly I could care less,” one man wrote on Twitter. Apple users imagined total mayhem, or the necessity of owning two phones-one for daily use, and one for photographing the other phone.
TONIGHT SHOW SCREEN GRABBER UPDATE
An iPhone software update was coming, and the anarchists at Apple had decided to add a new feature: Starting soon, your device would register every screenshot that you grabbed of a text conversation, and notify the other participants. In early 2017, a terrifying rumor began to drift around the internet.
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