Try o paste (Ctrl-V) to Facebook or Skype messenger. It comes out as text, something like this:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
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<svg
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
version="1.1"
id="svg1599"
width="429"
height="234">
<metadata
id="metadata1605">
<rdf:RDF>
<cc:Work
rdf:about="">
<dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
<dc:type
rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
</cc:Work>
</rdf:RDF>
</metadata>
<defs
id="defs1603" />
<sodipodi:namedview
pagecolor="#ffffff"
bordercolor="#666666"
borderopacity="1"
objecttolerance="10"
gridtolerance="10"
guidetolerance="10"
inkscape:pageopacity="0"
inkscape:pageshadow="2"
inkscape:window-width="640"
inkscape:window-height="480"
id="namedview1601" />
<inkscape:clipboard
style="font-variant-east_asian:normal;opacity:1;vector-effect:none;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke-width:3.77952756;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:0;stroke-opacity:1"
min="158.00001,-882.99994"
max="587,-648.99995" />
<image
y="0"
x="0"
id="image1568"
height="234"
width="429"
xlink:href="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAa0AAADqCAYAAAARfBpXAAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhkiAAAAAlwSFlz
" />
</svg>
But I can paste this into Gimp and it comes out as image, and when I copy it from Gimp I am able to paste it into Facebook or Skype as image. That seems a bit strange, doesn't it?
I'm using Inkscape 0.92.2 (5c3e80d, 2017-08-06)
On Ubuntu 17.10