Pre-Swap

The typical expectation for people's profile pictures is that they will choose a picture that they feel represents them and who they are well. More often than not, this means that their profile picture will actually include themselves in it. So what happens when we break this standard and make our profile picture one that is NOT of us?

For this project I will be switching profile pictures with Everi Osofsky for one day to judge my friends' reactions. Given that my profile pictures tend to be on the more funny/lighthearted side, will people think that this is just another joke, or perhaps in some strange way I am actually serious about this? I will be documenting how people choose to interact to this experiment, whether they like the picture, comment on it, send me a message asking me why I've changed it, etc.

Aftermath