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Old 11-29-2009, 06:01 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Lirael View Post
Avatars definitely influence my perception of the people behind them. I don't know how to explain it very well; it's sort of like, the avatar becomes the "face" of that person. When I see that person's screen name, I picture the avatar. It makes it terribly confusing to me when people switch avatars, then, or when they have a person in their avatar, but then they look absolutely nothing like that person - which I know is strange, but that's how it works out in my head.
It's often like that to me, too. I do think you explain it quite well, actually. It can be especially confusing if someone use a person for an avatar - and you then learn that that person is not them but someone else.
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