Interestingly enough after changing my profile back to its un-pixelated state I got 8 new likes within the first hour. That is four times as much as my blurry image garnered in 6 hours. And my normal profile picture was old material that had already plagued people's walls in March.
Faces matter.
The goal of anonymity is to pass unperceived, and that is exactly what happened to my profile picture. I wonder what people who saw my pixelated profile thought as they scrolled on by: was it just a 'oh that's odd' or a 'next!' thought. Is it facial expressions that typically stop the scrolling masses? Or is it a person's body language in an image that calls for attention? My profile had neither. I would like to see the result of this experiment with someone who does interact with the Facebook population -- would the results be the same? Maybe it just takes more effort for me to be noticed on Facebook.
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