Jeremy Liebman
Maurice Saunders has a damn-near-perfect smile—so textbook, with teeth so linear, that it’d be grating if it weren’t so approachable. You must be strategic about the smile you display on the first picture of your profile, he says. (Lesson #1: Lead with a smile.) A closed mouth implies you have something to hide, like a snaggletooth or a Ponzi scheme on the brink of collapse. If you grin too wide, you’ll look like a used-car salesman desperate to hit his quota. “We’re in that generation where we process information so quickly,” says Saunders, twenty-four. Display the faintest whiff of inauthenticity and you’re done for.