Do attractive profile pictures get you more followers?
For the longest time I have heard this idea, repeated and repeated again.“Girls with pretty profile pictures get more followers.”“If you have a picture of yourself, guys just follow you for the photo.”There are countless variations of it, but in all honesty, I was unsure.It wasn’t like I would change my picture and suddenly followers would flow in, right?So, I decided to test it.It was a surprisingly difficult task to find a photo that was not too unrealistically attractive. Eventually though, I settled for this one:I decided to keep the picture for a week. Tracking followers daily and as a total. I wrote roughly the same amount as I would ordinarily.Day 11,377–1,422Day 21,422–1,491Day 31,491–1,514Day 41,514–1,579Day 51,579–1,629Day 61,629–1,705Day 71,705–1,818The average increase was 63 followers per day. To put this in perspective, the previous week I had gone up roughly 100, roughly 14 per day.Over these 7 days, the number of creepy messages sent to me increased almost as drastically as my followers.With all this being said, this isn’t conclusive. Initially, I thought it would be definitive; I would shoot up three hundred over night, with every profile being a middle aged man. The reality is, there are too many outside factors to draw anything but the most basic conclusions.Nonetheless, there was a change. Though my upvotes remained in the same realm, my follower count jolted up.To end this probably contradictory conclusion, here are my final thoughts. Yes, an attractive profile picture does something, how much it does is difficult to tell.
What is the ugliest selfie you have ever taken? Post it and tell the story behind it.
That’s me on the right.I found this selfie while looking for a different bad selfie and quickly determined that this one is much, much worse.This was taken in June of 2014, while I was in the UK.My friend and I decided to take bad selfies; I decided to post them on Facebook.I try to live my life without regrets, but that is not always possible.It’s a bad selfie because:I look like I weigh about 450 pounds more than I do.I look bald.I’m making that stupid face.I probably hadn’t bathed in like four days and I probably smelled bad. I think that contributes to the awfulness of this selfie.At this point, we’d been on the road for a week or two now. We were somewhere in Northern Ireland (the photo is sandwiched between some pictures of Belfast and some other Northern Ireland photos). I didn’t wear makeup, do my hair, or dress up for a single part of the trip, so most of my photos from there look vaguely like this.Without the stupid face. The face is what really completes it.Here’s another really good photo of me from that trip, while somewhere in Ireland:I found a jellyfish. It was so gross that I had to take a picture.Here’s a selfie of me when I don’t look like poop:Note the presence of makeup, the less stupid face, and the presence of hair. It was also in the theatre prior to seeing Hamilton, so I look appropriately excited.Much better.
Why does everyone want to be pretty and beautiful?
Okay, Like i want to be too, but everyone on yahoo asks total strangers if they are pretty or not, and how to get prettier, why does it even matter? What is the point of being pretty? I am sorry if this is a stupid question, but if you really think about it, isnt personality suppose to matter more?
Is it normal to always feel like other girls are prettier than me?
I do this too and i think its normal. everyone notices their own flaws, or things they wish they could change about themselves. Your a reallly pretty girl and im not saying that to make you feel better, im being honest. Just looking at your picture i thought " I wish i had long hair like her" So yes, its normal.
No one ever callls me pretty? I'm 13.?
First off, I would like to assure you that in thirty years or so it won't matter who is pretty or who isn't. Prettiness really isn't the important thing, what matters is what kind of person you are at heart. The person we are inside is what really makes us beautiful. We live in a very shallow world and a lot of really beautiful people today are not very nice people at all. On the other hand many people will simply tell a person they are really pretty or handsome just to flatter them for their own advantage...so that they can control that person or get them to like them, not because they genuinely think they are pretty, so don't be deceived by that statement. You are probably the prettiest one of all and you may not realize it but you are very fortunate to NOT have a boyfriend at 13...it only leads to emotional heartache at that age..save yourself, what you have is very precious, please save yourself for marriage and you will have no regret, work on your inner person and then someone who has the same high values that you have and that will cherish you for the person that you are not for just how you look will be attracted to you. In the meantime remember no one stays physically beautiful forever, we all age and lose our looks eventually and then, what is left if we haven't developed the inner person? You are valuable and you have your own unique gifts, not in comparison with others.
Why do you think we're so obsessed with selfies?
These are the only photos we see now all over Facebook and Instagram. Heck, even the word "selfie" has been named the 2013 word of the year by the Oxford Dictionaries. So why do you think we're so obsessed with taking pictures of ourselves?
I can't tell if I'm pretty or hideous?
Seriously its always bothering me I'm very confused. My whole life I grew up next to a family who we practically lived with since we were constantly at eachothers houses. But all of them called me ugly. The big brother would always call me fat, hideous, I look like a boy, I will never get married, I'm just downright ugly. And my other neighbors would say the same, they would be all over my friend & say she is so much prettier than me. One day she was feeling bad about herself & while I was minding my own buisness she went & asked all of them if anyone would date me & they all laughed & said no I would much rather you. She came out laughing & told me everything..... While that was happening all the time, other people were calling me pretty. My cousins my aunts my other friends, they would say I was gorgeous & it was so confusing! My friends little sister (who I also grew up with) would always say she wished she looked like me & that I'm prettier than her sister! I was like what!? And my new neighbor guy who I became friends with would always say I'm beautiful & he wanted to date me. But after a while he started calling Me ugly too....he said my eyes were too huge I looked like a fish & he made up a mean nickname for me :( Then my other friend said I'm probobly gonna be a model someday. What the heck!?