Mugshot Tips

As I continue my research of the social-networking world I've noticed a few things with mugshots and I thought I'd offer my opinion on them.

First of all, what is a mugshot? It's the picture people place on their profiles. While there may be a better name for these I'll call them mugshots for clarity.

Married people and those in committed relationships
Place a picture of yourself with your significant other. This solves a couple of problems:

• Women - This should hopefully keep guys from hounding you. If they see you with your man in a loving photo they probably won't bother. Why waste their time with an attached woman when there are plenty of single ladies out there.
  

• Men - This will keep you from looking like a sex fiend on the prowl for chicks.
  

Single females
A photo of only yourself. You'll confuse guys as they try to figure out which one you are. Besides, they really don't care that you have friends because guys are just different that way.

Single males
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put up a photo with you hanging out with friends. When you only have a photo of yourself you look like a psycho pervert freak. A pic of you and your friends, preferably some of them women, makes you look safe and less like you just got out of prison.

Facebook sucks!!

So why does Facebook suck, because it's addicting! I was supposed to be doing research for a social-networking application, RockingBull, I'm working on but the more I research the more I get addicted to customizing my profile and exploring all of the different applications available. Opening up their website to programmers was genius and turned them into an operating system for the web, like Windows XP is to the desktop. I can see why Facebook is so popular because it sucks you in and you keep wanting more.