So you've taken a new profile pic, applied all the necessary filters and are pretty darn pleased with the results. One upload later and you sit and wait for the likes to come rolling in, or, better still, the obligatory "looking good bruv," or "lush pic babe" from your entourage of friends. A tonne of plaudits later and this particular profile picture can easily be ranked as a success. The sensible thing to do here is to leave this wonder portrait alone. But Facebook doesn't always make us do sensible and it's not uncommon to be on the receiving end of a friend's fetching new profile snap to appear again on your timeline a day later, having been changed into the proud as punch posers profile picture all but a day before. In reality, the person has simply updated their picture with the same one, to being it back onto our timelines on the hunt for more likes. This needs to stop.
Shaun is a former contributor for a number of Future Publishing titles and more recently worked as a staffer at Imagine Publishing.
He can now be found banking in the daytime and writing a variety of articles for What Culture, namely around his favourite topics of film, retro gaming, music, TV and, when he's feeling clever, literature.
