Facebook identity analysis

When trying to find Facebook profiles to dig deeper into the thing that stands out the most is that most people have the same kind of profile picture. Most of them are pictures of the person himself/herself, some just faces and some a little more. So I tried to look for some different types and ended up with these three...

The first person I watched closer was one of my friends mom. She is friends with many of my friends too because she has been involved with my swim team back home. Her daughter is actually in the U.S. too swimming and studying. Her profile picture is a simple picture of her smiling. Her updates are not very frequent but it is obvious that she does spend a lot of time on Facebook. She writes her daughter a lot and Facebook is obviously a great way to stay in touch when far away from each other. The other things is that she plays games, answers different kind of questions and vote in polls all the time. Her wall is cluttered with those kind of activities and it is actually kind of fun to see, I wouldn't expect her to play ridiculous Facebook games involving pink bunnies... She also has 86 likes and they range from sports clubs to comedians and "the sun".

The second person I looked at is a high school friend of mine. Her profile picture is also just a plain photo of her but I can tell she dressed up for the photo which is also black and white. She updates her status a couple of times a week irregularly and it looks like she mainly writes about stuff she discovers and likes. Like her last one was about a movie she liked. She does a lot of commenting on photos and she also uploads a lot of photos. She has only 5 likes and they are all soccer teams and one night club. She has had 56 profile pictures the last half year which makes me think that her online image is really important to her.

The last person i checked out is a college guy. His profile picture is of him and two other guys and they are just sitting around looking cool. He is very active not necessarily with status updates but with games, links and youtube videos shared on his wall. He haven't uploaded any photo albums himself but he still comments a lot on others. He has a lot of likes and it is mainly TV shows and music.

What all of these people have in common is that they have a lot of friends (except my friends mom). They have over 1000 friends and that seems to be normal among my friends. What they also have in common is that they share little personal information. They do however share a lot of photos and they like to show themselves from a good looking side.