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Document the effects of changing one's profile picture.

Created: September 17th, 2015

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Social media today has an untold effect on the way we communicate and network with one another. Effectively, a social network allows us to interface with other humans more flexibly and efficiently than in face to face conversation, at the cost of intimacy. Facebook in particular seems to want to deliver a very particular experience to users, trying to be as close as possible to conversing in the same room. This is particularly evident from how Facebook highly encourages one to using a photo with their actual face in their profile picture. Essentially, this profile picture is the 'face' of any online persona, and it plays a large part of how a person is judged online.

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2 comments · Latest by Cloud Tian

Although it seems like the same approach by changing the profile photo on social media, yours is a little bit different. You're changing your profile to the pepe thing (which I don't know) and wanting to find those with the same interest as yours. It's the case that sometimes people would consider your profile photo as your interest and come to you and talk about it, but I think it's not always the case: more often, people just smile and move their thumbs to the next post instead of click your icon and start a conversation about pepe. It'll be interesting to read your result, but I can only guess this far based on your intention. Good luck on your project.

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Document the effects of changing one's profile picture.