And it’s not your profile picture – surprisingly. No, apparently the one thing that will really make you look “hotter” and more attractive to other people is in the numbers. HowAboutWe recently reported on a study, which found “the more Facebook friends you have, the more attractive you’ll seem.”

But while good looking people can have lots of friends in real life – I don’t trust someone who has millions of Facebook friends. It’s impossible that anyone could actually be friends with all of them, right? But I digress.

So, how exactly did the study come to this conclusion? HowAboutWe reports that 102 undergrads evaluated “the cuteness of various scientifically engineered profiles.” Apparently the pictures were “controlled for ‘objective’ attractiveness” – but how you make attractive traits “objective,” in the first place? I’ll never really understand.

The scientists then gave each profile a number of Facebook “friends.” “Popular” folks were given 330 to 340 friends and “unpopular” people only had 90 to 99 friends, according to HowAboutWe.  The facebook profiles are then rated on how attractive the undergrads found them.

What they found was “the more friends you have, the hotter you are.”

Ridiculous? absolutely. But if you’re looking to attract someone special, start Facebook friending today. Maybe it’ll help land that person of your dreams. Chances are, though – it won’t.

[h/t HowAboutWe]