Picture Perfect on Social
So you notice that you're not very successful on your dating apps, likes have never happened for you on Instagram and Facebook, well, not much exciting happens there either. Maybe it all just comes down to the fact that you're not posting the right photos. Yes really, there have been all sorts of studies done on what works and what especially doesn't work. Therefore, here are: the unspoken rules of the photos for your social media:
Tinder
It turns out there are some sort of unwritten rules about what works and what doesn't if we are to believe Radio 538. What people don't want to see on Tinder: no hamburgers, no sunglasses, no hands, and as calm a background as possible. Check this also just a little more tips for your dating profile.
So you've always thought that a good LinkedIn photo is just practically identical to a passport photo in smart clothing? Smart clothing: yes, although you don't have to be all dressed up in a suit, but you can certainly post a photo where you're not fully facing the camera à la mugshot, so to speak. Adeline even recently came across an article stating that you can also look in a different direction instead of making eye contact with the camera. Good to know, good to know. By the way, are you looking for a new job? Here the best ways to use your social media to score a new job.
This is the platform where you can actually be as shameless as you want. The selfies, they are meant for this. Bikini photos, gym photos: anything goes, anything can happen. Just pay attention to your hashtags. These are a tad passé. Of all the social media platforms, Instagram is also the one that resembles reality the least and therefore a round of applause for the most fun Vivian Hoorn who with her second Instagram account jaqueline_timemachine decided to post the quirky, so-called ‘ugly’ photos of herself. By far my favorite Insta account.
Now I don't use Twitter myself, but a little birdy told me that you never have to worry too much about photos here. Filters are absolutely not necessary, you just post snapshots that you quickly took.
Cute, baby photos. But PLEASE not in abundance (#sorrynotsorry). And personifying your baby, that's really not necessary either. By the way, here are more Facebook rules, not necessarily all photo-related, but still read them. It will save you a lot of ‘unfriending’.
Or you can just not care about any of this and post whatever you feel like. Rules are made to be broken, right? Tschüss.
