Profile Pictures

Recently, I was having a conversation with a co-worker about profile pics and how often, when you meet someone you’ve known only online (extremely common in my industry), they look nothing like you expect them to. This annoys me because I find it to be a form of false advertising. When we were having the conversation, we were speaking specifically of colleagues and co-workers.

The subject of online dating came up, and I was reminded of how ridiculous I think men look when they have pics of themselves up without shirts on. I don’t care how great your body is, but put your shirt on. Women are not as eager as men to find out what you look like underneath. (Much more exciting to find out the hard way ;-))

I was browsing my Facebook, and clicked on the profile of a guy I met a few months ago, and never really had any communication with (because he’s pretty much a big loser). I clicked on it because he wasn’t wearing a shirt, and I was curious to see how deluded this guy was about his body. And I was surprised to learn that he had 400 Facebook friends. I was surprised because he joined Facebook after meeting me. That’s an average of 100 friends a month since I met him. Odd, I thought. So I clicked a little further. From what I can tell, about 95% of his friends are female. Fine.

But what I noticed about his female friends, is that most of them were half naked…some more naked than that. There were butt shots, boob shots, and shots I just can’t talk about. I’ve met this guy in person. He is not nearly cool enough to have friends that hot or slutty even…the only thing I can think of is that they are all hookers. Has anyone heard of this before on Facebook? A Facebook network of whores?? I suppose Facebook is a logical place for this. It IS a social networking tool, but it really makes it rather public. I mean, at least 400 other people are able to find out that he belongs to a “One-night Stands” group.