Overall, I have learned that in high school, people have generally less self pictures because they may be more self-conscious or just prefer to have another object, physical or digital, that better represents them. Then as they get to college, the pictures are generally self pictures, and the self+ pictures generally represent people with their girlfriend, boyfriend, or very close friend. In my college picture, for example, the other girl is my roommate and very close friend. The type of picture is also largely dependent on what the person is interested in. For people more interested in physical activities, or have done interesting physical activities recently, are more inclined to post pictures of themselves with or without other people. People more interested in arts, on the other hand, often choose to have an artistic image represent them. Also, people who are hardcore gamers tend to have a digital image.

It was also interesting for me to see how my profile pictures compared to my friends. I did have an other object picture during high school, like most of my high school friends, but I did not change to a self picture in college. I did get closer, however, as I changed it to a self+ picture. This was actually because people I met would later tell me they couldn't find me on Facebook, so I decided it was time for a change. However, I do not particularly enjoy taking selfies, so I took a self+ picture instead.

Unfortunately, I did not have an equal sample size for each category, so it would be interesting to see how other people's friends compare to my data.