Is it possible to know who takes a screenshot on Facebook?

One of the most frequently asked questions on the Internet is the following: do we know if someone has taken a screenshot on Facebook?

Take a screenshot it is undoubtedly one of the most frequent operations that we find ourselves carrying out during our days. Whether it's a computer, a smartphone or a tablet, the capture of a static image of what appears imprinted on the screen offers several advantages and often this image is then shared with your contacts, for example because you want to show your friends or acquaintances that you have found a certain product at a special price on a certain site. Instead of sharing the url of the online shop, it can therefore come in handy take a screenshot of the site.

Take a screenshot however, it also has disadvantages in terms of privacy and the speech is intertwined above all with the use of social networks. Precisely for this reason and to protect personal privacy, some digital platforms usually send alerts (rectius, notifications) in the event that some contact with whom we are interacting via social networks has made a screenshot of the conversation screen. And here a doubt arises: the argument also applies in the case of Facebook, which is the most used social network in the world?

Can people see if I take a screenshot on Facebook?

The answer is negative. Or rather, it is only partially. Without mincing words, Facebook does not warn its users in case of screenshot of a post, and this also includes images posted within the platform. At most, the chats of Facebook Messenger they will send a notification to let you know that someone has made one screenshot of a disappearing message. This possibility, present on the app for smartphones and tablets with the Android and iOS mobile operating systems on board, was in fact included on the occasion of a recent update published by the Meta company and involves the only chats protected by end-to-end encryption.

However, the problem remains if you turn your gaze towards Facebook. In this case, as anticipated also in the previous lines, Mark Zuckerberg's social network will not send any notification in the presence of screenshot made on their own posts, likes or in images. Also Instagram, another company that gravitates around the orbit of Meta, follows the exact same modus operandi: in fact, there is no way of knowing if someone has made a screenshot of a story. Conversely, if a user catches one screenshot of photos and videos that disappear in the DMs of Instagram, the sender will be informed via a notification.