Soon after social medias became a main stream thing, one issue emerged that made everyone very careful about what they should be sharing on these social platforms. Because their shared text or media reached an unexpected amount of people that caused further trouble. As in, someone might have posted something without being that thoughtful or didn’t put that much attention to detail which resulted in misinterpretation of the post when the post got public to a lot of people. Specially celebrities and public figures suffered from this heavily as they got criticised which resulted in damage to their careers.
For this reason, everyone on social medias like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc started making their posts visible to a selected crowd. Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post* announcing the platform’s shift toward prioritizing closed groups and other private communications. This was a great step but it certainly didn’t solve the issue completely. One such example is screenshot.
Today you can take a screenshot of anything you see on your screen and share it with whomever you want. And if you screenshot someone else’s post or worse, texts, they won't even know that you shared their private message which was meant for only you to see, got shared to a whole new people. This problem needed immediate attention and the feature that saved it is screenshot notification.
Some apps now notify you whenever someone takes screenshot of your messages. This is a very useful feature as it lets you know whenever someone else is thinking of exposing you in a bad way. After knowing that you can take action against the other person or talk things through with them. And it also makes it way less likely that someone takes screenshot of your chat with bad intention as they know that you are going to be notified.
TixerX, a partner finding app provides this feature. It really makes the platform comfortable to use and it avoids many awkward situations. Whereas apps that doesn’t provide such functionalities are often risky for everyday use of socialising.