Social proof on Instagram signals you are not a creep, not just that you are popular

Pictures with other people, whether friends, a girl, or even subtle hints like multiple glasses on a restaurant table or nails in the frame, work because of subconscious social proof. She is not consciously analyzing it. She is simply registering: other people want to be around him, so he is probably not a weirdo. Fabrizio Rausa notes that for a long time his photos looked lonely, as if only a tripod had taken them, and that hurt him. Looking like you have no one around you is actively damaging. Even one or two friends in a shot changes that perception entirely.