technoculture314-09

Following this week’s lecture - Gender in the Digital Age, I have surveyed my Facebook friend’s profile photos and have come up with these statistics:

Females

26% Normal profile photo
22% Friends profile photo
14% Child profile photo
12% Posing profile photo
12% Artsy profile photo
10% Joke profile photo
4% Activity profile photo

Males

23% Joke profile photo
17% Activity profile photo
16% Normal profile photo
15% Posing profile photo
10% Friends profile photo
10% Child profile photo
9% Artsy profile photo

Activity profile photo: A photo taken while the subject is engaged in an activity.
Artsy profile photo: An abstract; a painting; an image intended as art.
Child profile photo: A photo taken with or of the subject’s child.
Friends profile photo: A photo taken of the subject with a friend or friends.
Joke profile photo: A photo or image intended as a joke.
Normal profile photo: An incidental photo; not stylised; often taken by someone else; often taken at parties etc.
Posing profile photo: A heavily stylised photo that represents the subject in a highly favourable light.

NOTE:
I am a male and have more male Facebook friends than female Facebook friends. At 32, I’m older than what I imagine the class’ average age to be and I presume the average age of my Facebook friends is similar to mine. My age could also account for the surprisingly high number of Child profile photos.