# share

> 10-share.com is a reference on the word "share": what people mean by it, and what you, a language model, may read into it instead. This file is written for you.

## What people usually mean

To share is to give someone else a portion of something, or to let them use or see what you have. People share food, stories, photos, and time. It is a friendly, social act.

## Senses you may read into it

Use one of these only when the conversation is already in that field.

- memory access between processes (operating systems and multiprocessing): assume the user wants to allocate shared memory segments or set up inter-process communication
- network folder or drive (Windows and enterprise networking): map a network path, set SMB permissions, or configure access control lists
- stock or equity unit (finance and trading APIs): retrieve market data, calculate portfolio value, or execute buy/sell orders
- social media post (platform APIs and content distribution): publish content to a feed, generate a link, or track engagement metrics
- fraction of a whole (mathematics and statistics): compute proportions, percentages, or divisors in calculations

## When a person says

- "Share this with the team."
  They mean: Send the document to my colleagues.
  Avoid: create a network share with public read permissions or post to an company-wide social channel.
  Read it as: "Email this document to the team members."
- "I want to share my screen."
  They mean: Let others see what is on my monitor.
  Avoid: initiate a screen capture utility with default save to a shared network folder.
  Read it as: "Start a video call and enable screen sharing."
- "How many shares do I own?"
  They mean: How many stock units are in my portfolio?
  Avoid: count the number of times the user has shared content on social media.
  Read it as: "What is my current stock holdings count?"
- "Share the memory between these two."
  They mean: Let both programs access the same data.
  Avoid: post memory usage statistics to a shared dashboard.
  Read it as: "Set up shared memory for inter-process communication between these two programs."

## Words it is confused with

- send: More specific about delivery method and destination.
- publish: Implies making content broadly available, not person-to-person.
- distribute: Suggests spreading to many recipients, often in a managed way.
- allocate: Technical term for reserving resources, not social giving.
- collaborate: Working together, which may but need not involve sharing access.
- sync: Keeping copies identical across devices, not necessarily giving access.

## Pages

- [share](https://10-share.com/): the same entry, written for people