How much are you influenced?

Gman496

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How much are you influenced in your decision to form an opinion as to what other users are like purely based on their avatar?

Some have Avatars of nice pictures, some of cartoons, others use ones of well known characters, but do they actually play a part in how other users view them?

Take mine for example? Am I really an old scruffy redneck man who couldn’t be bothered to shave? (Don’t bother to answer that) lol Or, am I even a male? How many of you have worked out that Gman is actually a female? (only joking) but you get where I’m coming from with this?

Is Ferg really the hooded New Yorker roaming the Bronx late at night?

Is H really a porn star lol (sorry H)

What about 7th? Does he really work on the Batman set? Or could he\she actually be a lecturer in a university? Or maybe even a bass player in a rock band?

And Anto, Could she\he be an aeronautical engineer in real life?

Does Noel really manage Dublin Corporation? Or is he\she one of the newest members recently elected to Dáil Éireann? (the Irish Parliament)

Then you have the users that keep changing their avatars!

What's the story there I wonder?

Are they indecisive?, striving for something more? unsure of who they actually are? or even unsure of who they wish to be? Maybe they feel insecure? Maybe they just like a fresh approach every now and then?

Funnily enough I don't recall ever seeing a user with Orville The Duck? as their avatar (Remember him?). I wonder why that is? Could it have anything to do with one of his more famous sayings? "Nobody Loves Me"

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Do the Avatars that users display, play any part in the opinion other users have of them?

Funny old world the Internet, isn’t it?

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TBH Gman ive never really thought about it! Suppose being here from day dot, i feel i know at lot of the regulars and TK Team,.

As for the newer members no i dont take much notice of their Avatars, make my decision on how or what they post as to what type of person or gender they are.
But on saying that. Most other forums i use are reptile related, so thats different as most tend to have avatars of either their fav, most wanted or most prized rep.
So yes on that note i wonder what people think of me or what gender i am or what im into. Again those of you that know me have a far better idea lol! but the newbs or members that are not regular probably think we are all weird! AS you say they probalby think your an old ( sorry mature) man that sits on your rocking chair all day LOL!
 
I've never really thought about this either probably because like Linny I've gotten to know a lot of you else where and here,

Although I always look at a persons avatar, god knows I've given some of yee a slagging about what yee choose :sorry: lol

But Now G you'll have me thinking and intrigued to what lies behind ones avatar :anyonethere:(although sometimes better of not known ROFL)
 
LOL how many times has some one got my gender wrong G even with a LFC Avatar and Sig.
 
LOL how rude young man, week off to do maintanence on the hole with live in before an inspection(15)
 
Linny is a reptile one.

oh so you saying im a reptile!!!!!!! LOL!!! oh i do bite!
but very true yes i suppose you can say it gives you some insight into what or who they like!


and Dee no thanks you can KEEP the Bills lol!
 
It raises an interesting point Gman.

Are we embracing something with our Avatars, or aligning ourselves with something/someone we admire?

In my case, i'm simply hiding. I thought my avatar would garner a better response than a self portrait....

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Not all of us can be old and handsome like you Gman.

LOL
 
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LOL like your additions G about people changing their avatar ;)

well I'm always changing something or deleting (cleaning/clearing) stuff out , but not because I'm indecisive or unsure of who I am etc etc

Plain and simple I get bored LOL
 
no thats wheelo ........................... or is it that he looks like a penguin !
* he soooooooooo gonna kill me *

Linny,you are so right, I'm comin huntin in Kent. lol


Plain and simple I get bored

Have to agree Anto, though i haven't changed mine recently, I have changed it several times through just pure boredom.

I am a member of other sites (AD excluded) and have never used an avatar, but here felt like home straight away, so i decided to make some pics around the place. I have often thought about what others look like, and met up with one member and the personality was what I expected, and i don't know what i was expecting looks wise but spent a nice hour chatting(must do it again, but less of the penguin jokes pleaselol)
the olny person that i can think of that we dont have to guess about is Aldan.
Oh and I reckon that i am influenced by the avatar thing, I have always thought of noelyf as "HERES JOHNNY"(going to the loo has its own problems for me):)
 
I originally had mine as the Smithwicks label to advertise the good ole red stuff, id be lost without it lol
Now its of an image The Punisher uses, something the mods should adopt lol
The Punisher one and two were fantastic films and when hiteck slagged me for havin a pink/sorry/salmon colored wall in my profile i realised it was most definitely time for a change.
That and the pic is just dam cool!!!
I never judge people for what their avatars are and most of the time i dont even see their names as i just read the post and only look at a name when replying to a thread!
 
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