Effect:

My first expectation was getting less messages. People that I talk with frequently would be sure that the number was mine, but if a friend that I haven’t talked to in a while decided to text me, then they would have looked at the picture, realized it was not me, and not text me. And this actually did happen. I only got texts from the two people I talk with every day and my brother. I talked to another friend because I started the conversation but he studies in CMU so he probably knew the friend in the picture. So there were four people total who I’ve talked to with this photo. Two of them (the friends who texted me first) realized immediately and the other friend and my brother didn’t realize it. It’s interesting that my brother and friend didn’t realize it since I talked a long while with both of them and it’s been a while since I’ve last changed it and the picture is always next to the name, both when you’re texting and when you’re looking at the Chats list. I would have expected them to notice that something is different.