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I donât think any of these women are that attractive, so Iâm surprised they became popular.
Itâs almost like being photogenic is not a requirement for love and happiness.
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This obnoxious chick was the âmost popularâ two years ago. Boing Boing is two years too late.
You had me at âcanâ.
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That you really care about conservation. And not at all about how big you penis will look next to his mounted head in your study.
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This is a serious forum. Donât be fatuous, Jeffrey.
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Sometimes, yes. Always? No.
Yes, clothing, hair, etc. are all social signifiers. All of them communicate something, even when you are completely conformist and unremarkable in your picture that shows something about your personality.
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Not really. What if it was a picture of you at work, where you are required to wear conformist, unremarkable clothing? I mean, I guess it says that you have a job where you are required to be an unremarkable conformist, and therefore you arenât a rebel who has shunned the traditional workplace environment⊠But thatâs not particularly saying much, in todayâs economy. People gotsta eat. My big issue is her saying that you can always tell a lot about a person from a single picture, and thatâs simply not true. Sometimes you can (for example - shirtless dude holding a tiger in front of Machu Pichu, youâre probably not going to be surprised, personality wise). But definitely not always.
Ok. So itâs a picture from work, this guy has a job. No uniform or dirty work clothes means office job, so probably heâs middle class. More importantly the fact that he posted it means that he wants you to know heâs got a job and is middleclass. Iâd say that already gives a lot of info on who this person is and what they feel is important.
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Because youâre including intent of the photo poster as part of the reason why a single photo can say a lot, Iâll agree.
A single photo taken of someone is as likely to mislead as expose a truth, but if that person CHOOSES that photo to represent themselves, then yes, that photo does become indicative of the person.
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I donât get whatâs wrong with using a photo of you on holiday.
Okay, Machu Picchu is a bit of a clichĂ©, I guess. But if you want to show youâre into foreign travel etc a photo seems a good way to do it to me.
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I actually meant to add that to my previous post - the picture that somebody chooses might say something about them (it could also just be the case that they thought they looked ok in that picture, and didnât have many to choose from). But thatâs different from trying to tell something about their personality from how they look in the photo (which is what was implied in the original bit that I quoted). Youâre as likely to assume wrongly about a personâs personality when youâre trying to figure out their motives for posting a photo, as you are trying to assume based on their looks alone.
I sort of got the feeling from the interview that it was people photoshopping themselves in front of landmarks, not actually going there. But I might be wrong.
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Which is implied when we talk about the current topic, which is dating sites. Itâs not as though people were suggesting that photos taken of you at night by the faceless old woman who lives in your home says anything about you other than where you live.
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If misspellings and stupid messages frustrate someone imagine what real problems do to them.
Of course not, theyâre always far too out of focus.
No, but she was saying that you can always tell a lot about a person based on how they look in that photo. Nothing to do with talking about âWhat it says about them that they chose that photoâ.
Yeah, but you canât divorce the context of what sheâs talking about from the setting, which is clearly an online dating site, where users always pick their own photos. Weâre arguing semantics at this point anyway so I donât see a victory for either of us.
