Kiss online dating goodbye with the wrong profile photo

Online dating site OkCupid collects heaps of data about its clients. Which you should expect. That’s what good websites do. For instance I know that you’re currently wearing a daggy shirt and sitting with one foot under your leg. Freaky hey.

The insights provided by the OkCupid blog are just phenomenal. They track just about every interaction between people and produce posts like this one – about the type of profile picture that is likely to get you noticed – debunking some popular myths. And they make cool graphs.

Here are the graphs on the types of photos that get the most responses…

A “MySpace” shot apparently looks like this…

Luckily it’s the shots that actually involve you doing something interesting that produce long term results.