Opinion: Why won’t your friends send you your group photos?


If you are consistently finding that your group’s photos are not being shared unless you harangue the person whose phone contains them, try being the one whose phone is used. And set the example by disseminating those photos as soon as possible. — Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

Q. Any time my friends get together, we take a picture of the gang to memorialise the occasion. We typically ask a passerby to snap the photo so we can all be in it, and to minimise the hassle for that person, we have them use just one phone. More often than not, the person whose camera was used neglects to send the photo to everyone, and it takes multiple nudges before the shot finally (if ever) makes the rounds. Am I asking too much?

A. In days gone by, the nuisance involved in getting one’s friends a copy of a photo was an ordeal worthy of a medal:

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