I have resisted the Cult of Facebook as well as I can. I only joined in the first place so I could tell my classmate Tony about our twentieth high school reunion. But then the friendship requests came. Beth put me on her friend list, and that started a domino progression of requests.
I state on my front page that I’m not an active Facebook user. I haven’t even had a picture up. But now I feel like I should have a picture. It seems like the polite thing to do. “Is this the Brad I went to elementary school with?” Well, now my picture should help people know.
But this doesn’t mean I’ll be accepting invitations to join the People Who Care About Lemmings group. And I won’t be swapping virtual bunnies with anyone either. All I do is accept friends and answer messages. For now.
Here’s the picture I’m using:
UPDATE: After consulting with everybody, it was decided the above picture looked a little crazed. Lloyd and Lauren took a bunch of other pictures. These are the two we pulled out:
Choice One
Choice Two
Which one should I use?
It’s a very fine portrait – almost life-like.
There are many things about Facebook that I don’t understand. All those quizzes and invitations confuse me. Resist! Resist!
It’s too late…he’s been sucked in…the only thing to do is an intervention….ASAP!
I’m with you and Brad. I finally disabled all of that stuff so that it doesn’t even appear on my newsfeed – just the posts and comments. Just the “real” stuff, the life stuff. I don’t have time for mafia wars. Or energy.
When did you start using crack?
It’s actually Meth. We’re in Nebraska.
Hehe!
Lauren puts it in her cookies.
Ha!!
So… Which of the 6 most common facebook photos is this?
Ha! Those are hilarious! I like cropping everyone out of my photo – including me.
I think you should use the picture of you from your ME page on here.
Because clearly you asked for my opinion. And clearly you will do whatever I say. Because I’m the bossy little sister.
😉
I think this photo will perfectly serve your desire to have fewer friends.
agreed.
Here’s the funny thing: I thought the standard silhouette head shot they give everyone before you post a profile photo looked just like you anyway!
PS That is a very nice picture! It’s just how I imagined you looked in elementary school.
Update everyone! Give your opinion, if you’re so inclined.
I think you should use your “senior picture” from the November 4th, 2006 post.
I vote for the second one. You look good when you laugh.
I LOVE the second one. And agree. You look especially good when you laugh. 😀
Yup, second one…it captures the essence of you much better than choice 1.
And I’ve ALWAYS commented about how good you look next to garbage!
Sorry I got into this late, but I agree with the smiling pose – if it had more back lighting. The overall exposure of Choice 1 I prefer on my end – but I tend to think things come over darker here all the time, so what do I really know? (Aren’t you glad you asked?)
[Pegster – were you trying to say Brad makes garbage look good by sitting by it, or what?]
…and this is almost uncanny (and what does “canny” really mean anyway?): I, too, got sucked in last week, by a 2008-2009 student now relocated to Connecticut who asked me to join so I could see pictures of his new house, etc. I sighed deeply, and complied. My life has not been the same since. I don’t know which is worse: clicking “delete” for the Classmates e-mails without reading them any longer (in the words of George Carlin, “If you haven’t heard from me in 20 years, there’s probably a reason!”) or fielding friend requests from people I thought were dead or are still my students (jibblies). Argh!
–still no picture here or there!
I’m with everyone else – use the second one. It doesn’t look as staged.