Your primary picture should always be focused on your face.
A good clear shot of your face and upper torso at a few feet is sufficient enough for a good profile picture.
The remaining of your pictures should show you involved in activities that you love.
There are easy ways to set up a camera and have it take pictures of you while involved in activities that you love.
This is where visitors to your online dating profile will get a better idea of what you are like as a person and what your life is like.
This doesn’t require that you have a bunch of friends in said pictures.
A mistake people often make in their dating profiles is in using too many pictures of themselves within their group of friends.
This makes it incredibly difficult for visitors to figure out where you are in the picture and takes a lot of attention away from you.
You can easily come off as though you are hiding within those group pictures and this can be a huge turn off.
People often worry that if they don’t have pictures of themselves amongst friends in their dating profile, visitors will think that they have no friends and no social credibility.
Your first concern should be about showcasing your personality and what your life is like.
This is the main thing that visitors to your dating profile want to see and get an understanding of.
They aren’t there to see how many friends you have.
You are making a very dangerous assumption in thinking that everyone on a dating site is comfortable with posting pictures of themselves and their friends, if they have any.
Not everyone is comfortable with doing that on an online dating site.
Some people are very private and others are introverts.
A profile filled with pictures of friends can sometimes cause intimidation that leads to the person behind the profile receiving fewer messages than they were hoping for.
Visitors can easily get the notion that this person is out of their league.
Yes, there is such a thing as overkill.
Like you, not everyone has a bunch of friends in their lives.
Some people are more private and have a smaller circle of friends or they are introverted and tend to keep to themselves.
Not everyone is a social butterfly.
Not everyone has social media.
Interestingly enough, there are some people who have a bunch of friends in real life who find themselves drawn to people who are more introverted.
You really just don’t know who you will attract and in making assumptions about what people will think of you if you were to post pictures that have no friends in them, you would be selling yourself short and doing yourself a disservice.
If you are looking to take a plunge into online dating and you have a healthy approach to how you live your life, you will ultimately match with someone who appreciates that.
After a good, clean picture of your face for a primary picture, focus on posting revealing pictures of yourself involved in activities that you love and this will attract the right person for you.