 So, I just recorded a video where I talked about not over-complicating stuff and listening to the wording of stuff even if it's technology-based and just using basic common sense to figure out what stuff means and not over-complicating it. But I'm probably going to do a whole other video on this where I actually demonstrate it. But one of the things I hate so, so much, and a lot of people do it, but primarily iPhone users seem to do it, is they take screenshots of stuff instead of sending it like, here's a PDF, instead of just sending me the PDF, they'll take a screenshot of the PDF and send it to me. And there's so many reasons you shouldn't do that. I mean, three main reasons I can think of. First of all, if I have a text PDF and you take a picture of it, the picture's going to be bigger than the text PDF. It's going to be a larger file. So you now have removed all text, it's a photo, so I can't highlight and copy text out of that. So if you're sending me a file and there's a phone number or an address or a web link on there or something, I can't copy and paste that somewhere and I can't search through the text because it's not text anymore, it's an image. You've also lowered the quality greatly because it's going to be the resolution of your screen. So I can't, with a text PDF, and I'm just using PDF as an example, I can zoom in, zoom in and I can make the letter from the, in the file, the full size of the screen, it's going to look clear. I'm not going to be able to do that with your screenshot. So if I just zoom in to try to read something, it's going to be blurry, it's going to be pixelated. Don't take screenshots of stuff unless you're specifically trying to show me this is what's on my screen right now. I need you to see what's going on on my screen for like troubleshooting or something like that. But that's just one example. I've also seen people take screenshots of photos. Like they'll take a photo, then they'll look at the photo, take a screenshot of the photo and send that to somebody. It's like just send the photo that you already took, it's a higher quality. Don't take a picture and I had someone go, oh, it doesn't lose quality when I take a screenshot. No, no, see the screen, I don't even know what the resolution on your screen is on an iPhone or a standard phone, but let's just say it's 1080p. It may not even be that. I don't even know. I guess some of the higher end phones have it. But you take a photo with your camera, the resolution is going to be huge. Even though you're viewing it on your screen this big, the actual resolution your camera takes is huge, so you just lost quality there. It may or may not matter, but you're also just taking an extra step. You're over-complicating it. Why would you take a screenshot of a photo, which last time still has like the border of the photo application around it? And I've actually seen on Realtor websites where Realtors take screenshots of the house, they'll have pictures of their house up on Zillow or some other website and they'll take screenshots on their phone where it still has the URL bar and all this other stuff in the shot and upload that as images. If you're trying to sell my house and you did that, you are fired. You are fired because that just looks horrible, it looks unprofessional and it's an extra step. Just take the photos. You're looking at a website. Download the photo. Take the photo that you took. Don't take screenshots unless you need to. There's a lot of people, oh, it's easier this way. It's adding an extra step. If I have a PDF and I want to send you a PDF, I want to send you this PDF, I just click on that PDF, click share and then choose how I want to share it. What you're doing is opening up the PDF, taking a picture of it, going to that picture, then saying share and then you're continuing the process from there. You just add three extra steps to a fairly simple process. Lower the quality, possibly increase the size of the file even though you lower the quality and made it less useful to me in many cases, again, if it's text, I can't search. Let's say it's, well, you want to take a screenshot of a 50 page document, although I have seen people take, this is the same thing just in a different realm. I've seen companies where they create a file, a Word document or whatever and then apparently they will print it and then scan it to make it a PDF file. Instead of just saying print a PDF or save as PDF or export as PDF, whatever application they're using. So now you just sent me a 50 page PDF that the quality is horrible because the scan, the file is much larger than it would have been. I mean, huge when you're talking about files that huge file difference. The quality is horrible and I can't word search or highlight and copy and stuff. I have a 50 or 100 page document and I'm looking for a part of it. I can't just say, you know, look for whatever. I'm looking for the address of the comic book shop and somewhere in there it has some information about a comic book shop. I can't just search comic book or if I know that the comic book shop is in Orlando. I can't just search Orlando and find where it says Orlando. Oh, there's the address copy and paste. I have to scroll through and glance over each page until I see the address. I hope I don't miss it and have to scroll through again. And then I can't copy and paste it. I have to type it unless I use some sort of OCR, but that's adding a whole another step. So don't take screenshots. Don't print stuff and then scan them. Why would you print something and then scan it? Unless you needed to sign it, in which case you can do digital signatures. It's not that hard, but to just print something and then scan it. Why would you do that? Print to PDF. Print to PDF. Pretty sure every computer has print to PDF built into it that's been made in the last 10 years. I'm assuming. Maybe Windows does. I know Windows didn't, you know, 10 years ago, but I would assume now you can print to PDF. And you can always install print to PDF option, but most office applications, I know LibreOffice and OpenOffice, you have an export to PDF. Don't print it. You're making it more complicated. Again, if it takes more than two or three steps to do something, you're probably doing it wrong. So to open up the document, click print, print it, take it, scan it, save it as a PDF. That's just way too much to say than just clicking export as a PDF. Anyway, that's a little bit of a rant, but it is a pet peeve of mine and I see people do it so often. And I just thought of it after finishing this last video because I was talking about my buddy who didn't know how to copy text from a text. So he got a text. He didn't know he could long hold and say copy and then paste it somewhere. So he's like, that's why I take screenshots. Well, that's, I mean, if you want to show the whole conversation, that's fine. That's fine. I get that. Okay. This is the conversation we had and I want to show it back and forth just as it is on my screen. That's something you would use a screenshot for. That is fine. But if I send you information, like here's the address of something or here's the phone number of something or here's the, the, the web link to something to take a screenshot. Now I've got, you sent me the phone number as a screenshot. I've now got to look at the number and then go, then type it in, go to my phone dial and try to type it in and go back and get the next number. Or what I would end up doing is just typing it into the text application and copying that and pasting it. You're making it much harder on me instead of just going copy, paste, send. Now I can just, usually most texting applications will detect a phone number. I can just click it. And if not, I could highlight that text and copy it and paste it into my, my phone application. Same with, with addresses. If you want to give me an address somewhere, a screenshot of the address or a screenshot of a map, people do that. They'll take a screenshot. Oh, here's the Google map or the crapple map of it. It's like, no, just, just go into Google Maps, whoever and search for the address or just give me the address. That's all I need. But if you want to send me the map, just say, share. Once you've looked up something on Google Maps, there's a share button, share. And then you'll say, in a text to Chris, send. And I got it. I got a link to it. They'll usually send, send a little map of it right into my text application. But don't overcomplicate, don't, 99% of the time screenshot is the wrong way to go. 99% of the time printing something and scanning it back into the computer is the wrong way to go. It's over complicated, makes things messier, larger. And yes, this video is just a completely rant, but it's a rant that hopefully educates somebody. And you know what? 99% of people who do that are going to continue doing that even if they've watched this video. But if I got one person to stop doing that, I just made the world a better place. And again, I might at some point have had a chance to do a video where I actually demonstrate this. I'll take a PDF with some text, look at the file size, take a screenshot at, look at the file size, zoom in on both and show you the quality difference and show you how I can highlight and copy and paste text from one to another in one and not the other. But to me, it's just, you drive me crazy when you do that sort of stuff. So. And that's it. Thank you for watching. And I hope you have a great day.