Ringer + start page
An interesting observation came up today at the UI13 lunch: you can tell a lot about a person based on the combination of their ringtone and choice of start page for their browser.
I had never made the connection before, but I always go without a ringtone (either silent or vibrate) and my start page is blank. I think what this reveals is that I prefer simplicity and starting with a blank slate. I like my tools to be unobtrusive until I need them.
A couple other interesting combinations from the table: default ringtone + Google start page and vibrate + Facebook start page. Just from having that information I bet you can start to form a fairly accurate picture of the people I met without actually meeting them.
Here’s your thought for the day: what does your choice of ringtone and start page reveal about you?
The default nokia 3310′ish ringtone, but it’s on silent when I’m in school, and the google frontpage when I’m on Opera and the default 9 (most visited)pages in Chrome.
I’m also having a black background and looots of icons on the desktop.. in a constant process of cleaning it up into two folders: Fun and Programs.
Mads
Default ringtone is the Super Mario Bros. 2 theme, iGoogle theme is normally something tropical or ocean-based, and I too normally have an all black desktop background almost entirely filled with icons, random notes to download stuff, thoughts, marsupials, and other things.
My take on all of this is that I live my life with an air of jaunty nonchalance, I dream of more relaxed/adventurous things, and don’t bother cleaning up something that’s nonphysical anyway (read: my desktop, OR my mind!)…