I do the second one because I was disciplined well, and taught not to waste glue by spreading so much of it, the edges and a cross in the middle is perfectly enough.
I absolutely hate it when people paste photos with glue all over the back, especially if it was printed on typewriting paper 😭 it makes the colors distorted
I spread my glue stick everywhere because it sucks and doesn't stick very well, so I always end up running through the paper at least 2 rounds of being fully glued :')
TBH as a kid I used to make different glue patterns on my paper and pasted them together and they would NEVER stick,so I would give up and just do it the ‘Stationary Addict Way’.