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Nah, handing someone your phone without sensible precautions to lock down sensitive data is irresponsible and begging for trouble. There's never a good reason to do that just to show a photo. Someone might think you're sharing an album, and even then, there are far better ways to share without compromising security.
Might as well share your bank account with them or spread your ass cheeks wide open. Such irresponsibility lacks etiquette.
Lack of text alternative breaks etiquette and web accessibility.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative:Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
I partly agree, like if you have sensitive images like nudes or other stuff you don’t want others to see, then put it in a protected folder requiring your password just to be safe. There’s also the fact most phone image viewers also have previews of other images at the bottom, so the other person could accidentally glance and see a faint icon of a dick or whatever and still find it a bit weird.
Then again though, if you hand someone your phone to see a single image, and that person feels it’s their right to see your entire photo library, to say it directly, they’re an obnoxious dickhead.
There's never a good reason to hand someone your phone to show them a photo? Good grief. Do you have nobody where handing them your phone is not equivalent to spreading your ass cheeks?