These images span a variety of topics, with most offering an idea of the owner's interests or sense of humor, in an attempt to personalize something that is primarily meant to be quickly and easily identifiable.

Hoping to find gain more insight into my friends' profile picture choices, I set out to examine more statistics and their relations to profile pictures, recording my data into an Excel spreadsheet. By visiting their profiles directly, I found information indicating each friend’s engagement with the Steam community or their gaming habits:

            number of games owned

            age of Steam account

            Steam level

            hours played in past 2 weeks

            number of friends