23rd
May
2006
Face-off: The blank faces at Flickr and 43Things
“I chose a completely random goal from the 43Things home page: ‘download episodes of ‘Lost’.’ Then I looked through the list of 539 people who are interested in that goal. Of those 539, just 9 of them (about 2%) had changed the default profile picture to a personalized picture. On the analogous Flickr group, ‘LOST - the series,’ I looked through the list of 128 group members, and found that 120 of them (about 94%) had replaced the default profile picture with a personalized picture.”