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Avatars are more interesting. They say more about you than just some picture of you.
Actually, no, wait, when they are some picture of you, they say a lot, too. You are either arrogant and want people to see you, or you are lazy and lack originality. Don't quote me with what you did it for, I am just saying that is the impression it gives off.
I am unwilling to even do that thing where you put a photo of you on your profile, though. I have recently gone from indifferent to the camera to actively contemptuous of it. I avoid lenses and flashing lights like some sort of mass spread illness of some description.
The few pictures of me that exist are terrible because I am in them.
Actually, no, wait, when they are some picture of you, they say a lot, too. You are either arrogant and want people to see you, or you are lazy and lack originality. Don't quote me with what you did it for, I am just saying that is the impression it gives off.
I am unwilling to even do that thing where you put a photo of you on your profile, though. I have recently gone from indifferent to the camera to actively contemptuous of it. I avoid lenses and flashing lights like some sort of mass spread illness of some description.
The few pictures of me that exist are terrible because I am in them.
I think that there are probably more pictures of Bigfoot in the world than there are of me. Never liked having my picture taken - dates back to those horrible mugshots they did annually at school.
I did scream "you are stealing my soul" at the last person to point a camera at me. Just fucking don't unless I say you can, I like my privacy thanks.
Personally, I have always been more interested in what people do/think/say than the way they look - a breath-takingly gorgeous fuckwit is still a fuckwit. On a forum where communication is key, anything else is redundant.
I did scream "you are stealing my soul" at the last person to point a camera at me. Just fucking don't unless I say you can, I like my privacy thanks.
Personally, I have always been more interested in what people do/think/say than the way they look - a breath-takingly gorgeous fuckwit is still a fuckwit. On a forum where communication is key, anything else is redundant.
Three reasons, in descending order of importance:
1: Death Note. (No, really. It's hard enough having that doubt linger in my mind every time I see a stranger stare at me for a few seconds- I don't need to be consistently concerned about something so ridiculous.)
2: I am on the *internet*. My life is irrelevant here; I can be whomever I choose to be. Hell, I could start up a new account and tell you kids that I'm a girl. (Actually, I could do that with this account- doubt anyone would notice).
You can't choose who you are in the physical world. But here? I am a noble paladin, a vivacious acrobat, super hyper robot ninja. Honourable and openly silly, all at once. Why ruin all of that with bland reality?
3: Simple vanity- I am not an attractive person. Also I don't look good in hats, or even angle shots.
1: Death Note. (No, really. It's hard enough having that doubt linger in my mind every time I see a stranger stare at me for a few seconds- I don't need to be consistently concerned about something so ridiculous.)
2: I am on the *internet*. My life is irrelevant here; I can be whomever I choose to be. Hell, I could start up a new account and tell you kids that I'm a girl. (Actually, I could do that with this account- doubt anyone would notice).
You can't choose who you are in the physical world. But here? I am a noble paladin, a vivacious acrobat, super hyper robot ninja. Honourable and openly silly, all at once. Why ruin all of that with bland reality?
3: Simple vanity- I am not an attractive person. Also I don't look good in hats, or even angle shots.
Because I like anthropomorphic cans.
On a more serious note, I think an avatar can be just another way to express yourself which using your own picture may not lend itself to.
On a more serious note, I think an avatar can be just another way to express yourself which using your own picture may not lend itself to.
Lord Legion said:
Well...I go on the internet to get away from the real world. By uploading my picture I'm bringing myself into something I go on to get away from things, e.g. my face, so it'd be pointless to be on the internet just to reveal myself to more people who will reject how I am as a person, and how I look. I don't know if you'll understand that, but yeah...
Internet = I become someone else, anything I want to be, I can try and believe it
Real life = I have to deal with my usual awkward self.
I can't understand people who post images all over the internet of themselves. I understand the whole facebook thing, they do it for attention or whatever, but on forums? Erm...I really have no idea! Not too bothered about the whole thing
Internet = I become someone else, anything I want to be, I can try and believe it
Real life = I have to deal with my usual awkward self.
I can't understand people who post images all over the internet of themselves. I understand the whole facebook thing, they do it for attention or whatever, but on forums? Erm...I really have no idea! Not too bothered about the whole thing
I am much more recognisable through Randall Munroe's Pi symbol from this comic [http://xkcd.com/10/] than I ever would be from a picture.
The high contrast colours catch the eye a little more than the colours in your picture that blend well and don't catch the eye, no offence. It's also a very distinguishable picture, no one else here has Pi and their avatar so it also makes me feel a little unique. I also like maths.
The high contrast colours catch the eye a little more than the colours in your picture that blend well and don't catch the eye, no offence. It's also a very distinguishable picture, no one else here has Pi and their avatar so it also makes me feel a little unique. I also like maths.
The witness protection program...
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Ah, not actually. I have a photo on my profile, if anyone is ACTUALLY interested, it's my grade 12 year though, it's been a while.
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Ah, not actually. I have a photo on my profile, if anyone is ACTUALLY interested, it's my grade 12 year though, it's been a while.
I'm just really lazy... plus I just changed my avatar today since everyone didn't see what it was supposed to be... >>
i have a picture of myself in what i'll pretend is a hat i only wear on special occasions
because it's me
and i'm me
see?
because it's me
and i'm me
see?
Because I enjoy the thought of being a faceless person wearing a nice black suit with a black tie.
Having a picture up forces me to be me and not be a douchebag (that's the hope).
I don't mind having a pic of myself up, nice to have a face to a name.
I don't mind having a pic of myself up, nice to have a face to a name.