Why do so many post avatars?

[tomdavis]

Why do so many not use their photo? Seems to me that everyone would be proud to stand up and be themselves.

[Jumping Frog]

Why do so many not use their photo? Seems to me that everyone would be proud to stand up and be themselves.

Everything posted on the Internet is forever. Why wouldn't I want the opportunity to express myself without worrying that a possible future employer would take offense at an opinion I express today when they read it three years from now?

I know my kids don't have any concept of privacy as they post their lives openly on facebook, twitter, instagram, etc. However, I do maintain a certain degree of public anonymity.

[Keith B]

You don't want to see my real photo.

[CHLLady]

Exactly, not when people use your opinion 10 years from now to prosecute you with. No thanks.

[jmorris]

It expresses my true self.

[jimlongley]

It doesn't bother me that my employer, or anyone else for that matter, will see what I looked like in 1968, and what I was doing.

[Beiruty]

is it better?

[SQLGeek]

Because the M1 does my talking.

[Charles L. Cotton]

It expresses my true self.

Are you jmorris on CastBoolits?

Chas.

[karder]

My dogs are much prettier than I am, or so the ladies tell me.

[MoJo]

Ummm, because I was in the 82nd Airborne?

[Scott B.]

...because I have a mountain sized ego?

[Jim Beaux]

is it better?

...well, ahem....uh.........ahem, ahem...does Dallas have a preseason game this weekend?

[aaangel]

That's my back(the good side)

[StewNTexas]

Don't have any decent pictures from the last 10 years. Earlier pictures would be false advertising.