You take a picture, post it on Facebook, and you get a ton of likes on it. Should you use that Facebook profile picture as your online dating profile picture?
Why Your Facebook Profile Picture Gets Likes
Sometimes people will like your Facebook profile picture because you look sexy. But for the most part it is because they know you and your personality, and whatever your picture is representing – they like it.
For instance, I had a friend who posted some of the worst pictures of himself on Facebook, but he got a lot of likes because he wasn’t scared to show himself from below, above, or not totally cleaned up.
In short, he got likes because he let his ugly side come out instead of taking twenty pictures for his best side. He didn’t care what others thought, and many of us respected that fact.
I’m serious – not many people would take pictures of themselves and post them on Facebook them the way he did.
Other reasons that your Facebook profile picture gets liked include:
- People haven’t seen you in a while on Facebook or in real life so they like your picture (as in, I like that you finally updated your profile picture!)
- People like the background or the place you are at (favorite restaurant, favorite bar, nature, iconic place)
- People like the other people in the picture (like that hot girl you are with)
- People like what you are doing (drinking, peeing over a bridge, getting your diploma, whatever)
- People feel sorry for you and want to give you a like because they know that you are proud of the picture
- It’s really bad and people are giving you sarcastic like
Have you heard about a new trend on Facebook? According to The Star, re-posting the first picture you put up on Facebook is the new trend. If you think about it, you are going to like a lot of the pictures you see because they are embarrassing for the people posting them. It’s fun to see them like that – and, for the most part, that is what the ‘like’ button is really all about.
Your Online Dating Profile Picture
Don’t use your Facebook profile picture