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Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:16 pm
by tomdavis
Why do so many not use their photo? Seems to me that everyone would be proud to stand up and be themselves.
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:20 pm
by Jumping Frog
tomdavis wrote: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.
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:30 pm
by Keith B
You don't want to see my real photo.
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:40 pm
by CHLLady
Exactly, not when people use your opinion 10 years from now to prosecute you with. No thanks.
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:45 pm
by jmorris
It expresses my true self.
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:57 pm
by 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.
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:26 pm
by Beiruty
is it better?
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:54 pm
by SQLGeek
Because the M1 does my talking.
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 11:03 pm
by Charles L. Cotton
jmorris wrote:It expresses my true self.
Are you jmorris on CastBoolits?
Chas.
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 11:32 am
by karder
My dogs are much prettier than I am, or so the ladies tell me.
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 11:49 am
by MoJo
Ummm, because I was in the 82nd Airborne?
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 11:59 am
by Scott B.
...because I have a mountain sized ego?
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 12:05 pm
by Jim Beaux
Beiruty wrote:is it better?
...well, ahem....uh.........ahem, ahem...does Dallas have a preseason game this weekend?
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 2:30 pm
by aaangel
That's my back(the good side)
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 2:41 pm
by StewNTexas
Don't have any decent pictures from the last 10 years. Earlier pictures would be false advertising.