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"
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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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"
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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