Eli5: Why does texting a video get downgraded and have size limits but you can send a 1080p video through social media clear as day?

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Eli5: Why does texting a video get downgraded and have size limits but you can send a 1080p video through social media clear as day?

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Answer 1

Because texting isn’t really designed for large files and mobile carriers don’t want you really to do it that way, and so they limit the file sizes of files going trough the MMS network. Social media is designed and intended to be used to share large media files, and so they limit the file sizes a lot less.