Is your avatar picture really you?
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I didn't know ANYONE ever got to wear a red shirt for long enough to actually wash it -let alone wash it so many times it faded to pink.
Nope, not me, I just happened to find a big box of photos, videos and soundbites some time ago in a garage sale -been posting them as 'myself' ever since
Why? I'm jealous of that photo.
Yes, it's me. I decided to jump onboard the yourself as your avatar week. After that it goes back to Very Special Agent Fox Mulder.
Last time I checked yes though it's from two years ago when I had much longer hair.
And so you should be, it's awesome and not even slightly geeky like everyone else said.
It's made of PWN and Win.
Yes, this is me. Taken just a week ago.
I wouldn't normally, but it's fun to join in and see everyone's real faces. I wonder if everyone used their photograph as their av how posting habits would change. Would there be less boasting? More? Better manners? Would people be more truthful?
Well, I actually felt a little more self-conscious with my posting now that my mug is attached to my every exclamation and virtual exhalation here. I'll get used to it.
It would also be interesting to see how others react to people now that the masks have been dropped. Have the preconceptions been shattered for good? Do people react differently now that they see the real person? Or is there no real difference anymore? Personally, in terms of this particular board, it doesn't really make much of a difference, as I realised long ago here that behind every avatar is a real person trying to get out.
On another board, however, where the posters are less social and "real", it might make a world of a difference.
My av is (obviously) not me, but the design is something I want tattooed on me, so it kinda sorta has the potential to become part of me. Does that count?
gwud, you have nothing to be embarrassed about!
gwud, you have nothing to be embarrassed about!
^ This. Yep.Well, I actually felt a little more self-conscious with my posting now that my mug is attached to my every exclamation and virtual exhalation here. I'll get used to it.
It would also be interesting to see how others react to people now that the masks have been dropped. Have the preconceptions been shattered for good? Do people react differently now that they see the real person? Or is there no real difference anymore? Personally, in terms of this particular board, it doesn't really make much of a difference, as I realised long ago here that behind every avatar is a real person trying to get out.
My avatar is me, yes. For the time being.
And where would you get tatooed?
gwud, you have nothing to be embarrassed about!
I'm sayin'!
Zionravescene said:Well, I actually felt a little more self-conscious with my posting now that my mug is attached to my every exclamation and virtual exhalation here. I'll get used to it.
It would also be interesting to see how others react to people now that the masks have been dropped. Have the preconceptions been shattered for good? Do people react differently now that they see the real person? Or is there no real difference anymore? Personally, in terms of this particular board, it doesn't really make much of a difference, as I realised long ago here that behind every avatar is a real person trying to get out.
I'd bet it would make a difference of some kind - not sure whether it would be better or worse, but I'll bet it would be different.
I base this on my experience just in the past few months, since I became active here. When I first started, I didn't use an av for quite a while - long after I was eligible to. Then I used T'Pel, who is a very...hmm...intimidating looking lady. Then I switched to Dr. Selar, who like T'Pel is a Vulcan, but she's younger and more conventionally pretty (she's played by Susie Plakson, the same actor who does K'ehleyr and Lady Q).
I would swear there was a difference in the way people treated "T'Pel" compared to "Selar," and I would bet money there was an even bigger difference between no av and T'Pel - the latter, I suspect, was because all anybody could guess from my name is that I'm (probably) female, whereas once they saw T'Pel...well, they probably were fairly sure I wasn't some hot young thing.
I could be mistaken about the T'Pel-->Selar difference because if it was there, it was subtle, and besides, by then a few people were starting to know me anyway so the av didn't matter that much. But I'm nearly sure about the nothing-->T'Pel difference. And yet surely everybody knew I was neither T'Pel nor Selar.
That's open for debate. I got very close to having it done last winter, but I ended up passing since I was unsure. My friend had something done on her ankle, and that looks great, so I'm leaning towards ankle at the moment.
Make it giant and get it on your back.
I always knew you were a dour, sour faced woman.
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