Statistical analysis of facebook profile pictures

Zack Williams — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:40:03 +0000

This is totally naval gazing, but I think it’s kind of interesting what people use as their Facebook profile pictures. So, in a fit of sociological curiosity, I decided to count em’ up broken down by gender:

Men

Just themselves: 9
In a public situation with others: 3
In formal wedding attire: 2
With spouse: 2
With pet: 1
“Artistic rendition”: 1

Women

With spouse: 2
In formal wedding attire: 1
In formal wedding attire with spouse: 1
Just themselves: 1
With pet: 1
Obviously photoshopped: 1
Landscape photo with nobody in it: 1

What I can gather from this is that if you’re male, you’re much more likely to put a picture of your manly bod or something that portrays you as being cool or social as your profile picture.

If you’re female, you’re likely to put up a picture that indicates that you’re “taken” (if that’s the case). On the whole the women put up more a more diverse, creative set of pictures.

This analysis is probably skewed by my particular data set, but it’s just interesting nonetheless.

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Statistical analysis of facebook profile pictures