Avatars, why not our own pictures?

[devilsadvocate]

What's fun is when you know a person online for a long time and only see what they look like much later, and they inevitably look nothing like what you expected.

[Girl Read Write]

Originally Posted by catsittingstill

Also, it would be damned ironic if I used a picture of a model or something to maintain my anonymity and someone decided to stalk me because I was beautiful.

OR harass and annoy you because for whatever reason they DON'T like the way you look. Hate-based stalking occurs all the time on the net. I somewhat agree with the rest of your post. There are just too many weird, inappropriate, and offensive men on the Internet, in general, to put yourself out there like that. I'm sure there are some insane women as well, but they're not the ones I generally worry about.

I guess women never can be too safe. I probably sound a little biased, but my husband fully believes that anyone who spends significant time on Internet forums is weird and socially inept (excluding yours truly, of course ) and I've probably adopted his point of view without even intending to, and the last thing I'd want to do is expose anything about myself, personally, to such people. And even if everyone else is on whatever forum I'm on is completely sane, I'm still not interested in exposing my appearance to them. I also don't care about what other people on the Internet look like. I mean...this is an Internet forum. Nobody owes complete strangers a picture of themselves.

I will readily admit to showing my picture on at least three other forums over the past ten years or so. No problems ever came of that; the forums where I have displayed my likeness without blinking an eye were...how can I say this in a politically correct way? I guess you could say they consisted of members who were similar to me, demographically. But as I've grown older I guess I've grown a bit more paranoid. I have a blog, a Twitter, a Tumblr, a Facebook, and accounts on about 10 forums, and none of them reference the other and aside from Facebook, none of them have my likeness attached to them. I thought about posting my photo on my blog (where I write under a pen name), but since my blog address is in my signature on several forums, I've held off on that for the time being. I'm not trying to hide anything, but I do like staying under the radar.

Enough typing for now, though, I'm missing Hawaii Five-0. LOL.

[AprilHare]

How do you know this isn't my real picture?
Don't I look good enough? Seriously!

[Ken Maltby]

Probably for the same reasons that most post under something other than their own
names.

Luck;
Ken

[Cyberman tM]

My face is of little interest to anyone. It's boring and doesn't look the way I'd like it to look like.

My avatar on the other hand, has that friendly smile on his handsome face.

Also, I like that character. Perhaps more than it's original incarnation.

[Billi]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Do you really want to see that ugly mug every time I post?

Yes, why not? Thanks for posting and no need to hide!

[Mortis]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Do you really want to see that ugly mug every time I post?

You're wife is a lucky lady, you remember your anniversary, or did she remind you?

Everyone decides for themselves, which is good, because my ugly mug scared people away, sorry MR.

[nohmi2]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Do you really want to see that ugly mug every time I post?

Lovely 'photograph, with loving smiles.

Cheers.

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by nohmi2

Lovely 'photograph, with loving smiles.

Cheers.

Yes, I like to see something truely positive once in a while. Keep those happies coming.

excuses: deleted........

[Mortis]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Yes, I like to see something truely positive once in a while. Keep those happies coming.

Me and my sister: I'm the blonde one.

Is it just me or do they both look like they just did something very bad?

Cute picture

[Iridal]

Originally Posted by nohmi2

Lovely 'photograph, with loving smiles.

I had a picture of me as my avatar when I joined, but changed it to my current avater soon after. Maybe it's because I'm part of the internet generation (sort of), but I have absolutely no problem with sharing my picture on MR. It's probably also because I've been around a couple of months, and I know most of the regulars won't make a big deal out of it. So I've put a picture of me on my profile page.

But if people don't want to share their picture, that's fine by me too. I'll just have to let my imagination run wild

[Mortis]

Originally Posted by Iridal

I had a picture of me as my avatar when I joined, but changed it to my current avater soon after. Maybe it's because I'm part of the internet generation (sort of), but I have absolutely no problem with sharing my picture on MR. It's probably also because I've been around a couple of months, and I know most of the regulars won't make a big deal out of it. So I've put a picture of me on my profile page.

But if people don't want to share their picture, that's fine by me too. I'll just have to let my imagination run wild

The Imagination is an amazing thing, now if I only looked like I imagined I would 30 years ago

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Mortis

You're wife is a lucky lady, you remember your anniversary, or did she remind you? ...

How can I? She reminds me every year!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

How can I? She reminds me every year!

Never get the chance to prove yourself.

[Mortis]

She reminds you of your anniversary or that she's a lucky lady?

My wife doesn't remind me, its a test to see how many years I remember