WhatsApp has become the indispensable app for Spaniards on their smartphones, and this instant messaging platform is the favorite and most used communication method for all of them. There are more than 33 million Spaniards registered and the vast majority of them use it every day.
Whether to talk to their partner, family, friends, co-workers or even strangers, users use WhatsApp daily, and although we don’t think of it as such, this platform is also a social network, which in a less invasive way than Instagram or TikTok, it says things about us.
One of them, although it may seem insignificant to some people, is the WhatsApp profile photo, and its main function is to put a face behind an account in the app, but Depending on what we put there, a lot of information can be obtained about the person.
For example, if you go out alone playing soccer, we can give you a face and know that you like that sport, or if it is a photo of your children, we can interpret that you have a family, and thus there are an innumerable number of aspects that They can provide us with information about the person. But what happens to those people who don’t have a profile photo?
For security, If you do not have the other person saved in your contact list, it is possible that their photo will not appear until you save it, but even so there are contacts of people we know who also do not have a profile image, and it is not a coincidence, but for psychology this has an explanation.
What it means to not have a profile photo on WhatsApp, according to psychology
As we said, the WhatsApp profile photo It is an extension of our digital identity And according to psychology, there are several reasons why a person may decide to take it off or not wear one at all. The first of the theories is that not having a profile photo is associated with specific personality traits, such as introversion or neuroticism (anxiety, depression, hypochondria). Although the University of Pennsylvania (USA) points out that it is characteristic of people who are reserved and who do not like to expose themselves emotionally.
On the other hand, those users who remove the photo momentarily do so to express emotions without words, It usually happens after an argument. Psychology, on the one hand, attributes it to a passive-aggressive tactic to make the other person believe that you have blocked themalthough also could mean feelings of sadness or isolationa mechanism to disconnect from the social environment.
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