The Facebook profile picture Taggregate.

Taggregation is the process of determining how attractive someone is by stalking your way through their Facebook pictures and mentally calculating the average based on how they look in each one.

Example:

Best possible picture: This is likely a profile picture. It may include: a horde of good looking men or women, gratuitous alcohol consumption or a dog, as in this case. It may be photo shopped. There is even a remote possibility that it is not even you.

The Taggregate: This is how you look as a product of the mental average a person calculates based on all the Facebook pictures they have seen of you.

Worst picture: This is usually taken when you are off-guard or incoherent. It is often tagged by someone that does not like you. The picture is the type that will prevent you from running for public office someday. You likely have no recollection of taking it or where you were when it was taken.

Taggregation has evolved into an automatic process in all of us.

This may sound familiar....

You were dancing in the local club or bar and met a dashing Enrico Suave look alike. He gave you his name and number before stumbling off into the night. You decided you would meet up with him for drinks after playing hard to get for a few days. Before you met up with him again, he contacted you on Facebook. He looked like a god in his profile picture, with gelled, clean cut hair, an endearing smile and trapezius muscles.

However, you were not naïve enough to believe that his profile picture was an accurate indication of how he actually looks. Profile pictures are hand picked, often brushed up and are generally the best a person can possibly look. In fact you actually know a girl that spent $500 to have a professional take her head shot and photoshop it onto Gisele Bundchen's body. To combat this inflated first impression, you looked at the pictures he was tagged in by other people, knowing that he was likely off guard. You found a picture of him laying on a couch at a party in a drunken slumber with a bunch of his douchebag friends drawing genitalia on his face with a permanent marker.

You looked at a few more pictures just to get a better impression. You battled hard but eventually you managed to ignore the picture he took of himself shirtless in the mirror with his cell phone (you probably shouldn't have!). You finally decided that he was no Enrico Suave but neither was he a Shrek look alike or Grendel's love child. On average, he was a decent looking guy. Armed with this information, you decided that his looks were acceptable and thus it was time to present his pictures to your BFFs for final processing.

See, you did the math, you found the Taggregate and did not even know it ...hahaahhaah