Top 10 Useless Facebook Profile Pictures
I understand that some people don’t like pictures of themselves. I am not particularly fond of my own picture. That being said, the profile picture on Facebook is designed to have a picture of you and it has a purpose.
Nothing makes it more difficult to recognize that long lost friend request, than having to recognize somebody you saw 15 years ago by a picture of their cat. Let’s review the top most confusing pictures you can use to make sure I won’t add you as a friend. Now I grabbed these from random people in the system, only so I wouldn’t poke direct pictures at my own friends. I have every one of these examples in my own list of friends.
Number one is the silhouette. If you haven’t gotten around to putting any photo in the system, then shame on you. Perhaps you shouldn’t even be on Facebook, because really if we are all sharing more than we normally would, what makes you so special? If it is your first day and you are technically slow, you have an exception. Before you start adding friends into your list however, figure this one out.
Number two has to be the pet photo. Becuase I am sure that if I haven’t seen you in 10 years, I will of course know that you have a white dog. What would make it even better is if you tag the photo with your name in it. Unless you are living proof that The Shaggy Dog does exist, keep the dog pictures in your photo section.
Number three is great, because I can clearly see that is you 500 yards off in the distance. This one applies to those awesome scenic pictures you also took on vacation. If I can’t recognize you in the picture, and I didn’t know you were on a vacation to the Grand Canyon or wherever, how can I know who you are?
I am known for my cars. I appreciate that perhaps more than most people. I run car club in town, and my avatar is a picture of my car on that site. On that site it is appropriate to use a car because people remember each other by their car. Facebook is not the place to have a picture of your car or motorcycle as your Facebook image. What happens to those people in grade school who didn’t even know I had a drivers license?
Baby pictures come with a clause. If you are a new parent you have a month to show off your pride and joy before I call party foul. After that, you should be able to manage picking up the kid and take a picture of the both of you. I realize there is a lot of “he has your eyes” that happens with a newborn child. They all lie when that kid first comes out, and I can’t not recognize you by your baby.
Being a proud parent doesn’t go away. You will be tempted to fall into this clause. I can not blame you, after all most of the kids I know are pretty awesome. If you post the picture in your PHOTOS section however, we still all see it. Once you are past that infant clause of one month, I need to see you in the photo as well.
This one is deceiving, because it is actually a picture of me. In fairness, there may be a handful of people that do recognize this from my old neighborhood. However putting a picture of a younger version of yourself is the opposite of cool. We know you are avoiding the fact that you are old. We all are old, get over it. Skip past the picture you liked of yourself in high school too. (unless you are still there)
Unless you are a celebrity, posting up a picture of one is just lame and somewhat creepy. Although it may not be as creepy as the octuplet mom Nadya Suleman’s obsession with that Angelina Jolie, it is still lame. These people are not real. If you haven’t come to terms with the way you look by now, you never will.
If you can’t take a picture of yourself, or something even related to you, why not take a picture of a completely inadament object? That helps a lot. I try and take great photos, and perhaps one out of every thousand is actually good. So when you have that moment of zen when the camera happens to look past your photogenic inadequecies, put it in your photos, not your profile.
The ultimate symbol of laziness and avoidance is to choose an actual symbol. This way you avoid the whole problem of posting a photo up of yourself. I definitely will recognize you by this one.
