Each week a psychologist analyses a different Facebook profile picture. This week ‘the “we’re together” shot’

Here is what looks to be a typical wedding guest picture.  A couple all dressed up for the big day, nice dress and hair, wedding suit, flowers, smiling for the camera looking like they are having a nice time. Weddings are often a time of both deep thought and high emotions not just for the couple getting married, but for a lot of the guests as well.  It a classic setting where these thoughts and emotions can get carried away, it’s a situation which is largely out of the ordinary, it’s romantic and the guest list can be full of friends and family of not just the happy couple, but of the guests too. So it is little wonder that there are a lot of couples who’ve initially got together at a wedding, or the number of engagements announced at a wedding, perhaps not the best etiquette, but it does happen, because people can be swept away by the moment and the atmosphere.

Uploading a picture of a wedding could be interpreted in couple of ways; yes it’s a lovely picture of a couple enjoying the special day of a relative or friends, yet there could be a little, subtle underlying message here.  It’s perhaps a conscious or unconscious wish of the uploader, to send the message that maybe next time it will be them getting married, and this applies to both males and females!  Or maybe the couple in the picture are already married, and this is a perfect opportunity to show their friends and family that they are still very much the happy couple.

 

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