Proper Profile Pictures 🤳

"Why are people so bad at picking profile pictures?", I thought to myself precociously after picking up my Uber Eats order.

It's a phenomenon I stumbled upon many times in the recent weeks. After an increased frequency of food delivery orders out of laziness and an ever-increasing desire for a bit of routine on this trip around the world, it's something that I could observe many times.

People always look so very badass on their profile pictures when in actuality, they make such friendly and polite first impressions (at least from what I can tell after a half-minute-long interaction).

Then, I thought about social media and how I had witnessed the same phenomenon there: people are really bad at picking a profile picture.

It took a while before I turned inward and thought of my own profile representation:

Please be aware that I look really badass in all of my pictures on this page and I really don't know why.

It was standing there, on my about page, for an entire month. Right in front of my eyes. A sentence, I had recently added, where I apologize sincerely to the visitors of my about page.

I actually had noticed this fact and still didn't make the connection to my recent observation. I myself, had become a victim to the same phenomenon: I'm really bad at picking a profile picture.

I don't know what changed or how I eventually made the realization that the pictures I had used just don't represent who I truly am. What matters is that eventually, I did.

And with this, I announce an about page with friendlier profile pictures.

Because people, we really have to start picking proper profile pictures.