Study: Unattractive Women Effectively Hide Appearance With Group Facebook Profile Pictures

Ugly Women Hope to Confuse Unknowing Visitors With More Attractive Friends

-Los Angeles, California (Rueters)

A new study conducted by the Center for Internet Research (CIR) revealed that women deemed “unattractive” tend to effectively hide their appearance by posting group profile pictures on the popular social-networking site Facebook, rather than pictures showcasing their individual ugliness.

According to Miranda Gordiant, spokeswoman for CIR, “Women who are—to be frank—ugly often suffer from image issues. Our study has shown that such women often set their Facebook profile pictures to photographs including not only themselves, but several, much more attractive friends in the hope that visitors to their personal profiles will confuse them with their more attractive friends.”

In the course of the study, individual photographs of 2,000 women with Facebook profiles were presented to a group of 10 men. The men then rated the women as either “Attractive”, “Average”, or “Ugly”.  Of those given an average rating of “Ugly” (1,697 out of 2,000), it was found that 92% had set their profile pictures to one including several other, more attractive friends. 6% of the ugly women posted pictures that were vague or made their appearance indiscernible to the casual viewer.

“Facebook has positioned itself as a prominent tool in social interaction,” says Gordiant. “And our findings show that the same insecurities that plague ugly-ass women in the real world plague ugly-ass women on the internet.”