Do you pick your avatar based on how you see yourself or how others perceive you?

Question

Especially the ones with the mean look.

Answer 1

I am  mean.  Since this is fact, my avatar resembles the real me.

Answer 2

i tried to make mine as close to my actual looks as possible.

Answer 3

Haha, um, I just had fun making one. It really doesn't look like me at all. Sorry to disappoint. I couldn't really get one to look like I really do, so I just had fun with it.

Answer 4

Good question, and honestly, I don't know.  My avatar looks like me, but how can anyone know that what they perceive is reality, and not mere verisimilitude, filtered through their own experiences?

Answer 5

My avatar looks exactly like me. It doesn't have any specific expression.

Answer 6

my avatar is me about three years ago, in a g*y bar and dancing on a chair. good times!

Answer 7

Nah just picked a cute one.

Answer 8

My Avatar and me are one in the same- except I have my hair in a ponytail now! LOL

Answer 9

Yes.

Answer 10

I tried to make my avatar look like me and ended up with an avatar that looks like a 135lb 15 year old chinese boy

Answer 11

Lol.  Yeah mine looks like me - glasses and long brown hair, typical geek - your avatar looks so much meaner than your pic Lioness - you look really bonnie on your photograph :-)

Answer 12

I am lazy.  I dont pick any.

Answer 13

Since Yahoo's last re-fit a few weeks ago my avatar system has gone haywire. I can no longer see anyone's avatar.

Answer 14

Mine is the first in a series of personal tributes to great women of the modern era.

Cheers :-)

Answer 15

My avatar looked somewhat like me but honestly yahoo doesn't give a good selection. lol So I just put up a cute picture(which doesn't have me in it)

Answer 16

Can't help it, I like Frenchies. =)

Answer 17

Seeing as the Stanley Cup was raised this week probably time to change mine now that the season is over.

But I have played hockey all my life.

Answer 18

My current incarnation is dedicated to my favourite scientist in the forum....yes, johnmcn:  I did it all for you--being that I'm an ideologue and whatnot.  Oh, and I look exactly like this too.

Answer 19

Ive got 4.

I use according to my mood.

I really like this one.

people at work say i look like her.

Answer 20

I am an amazing looking man. I see myself as this, others percieve me as this so it'd only make sense my avatar reflect this as well.

Answer 21

Mines my favorite character from an old TV show.

Answer 22

thats me. im ufc welterweight champ.

edit: i dont know how u say ur not attractive lioness. ur gorgeous.

Answer 23

How I used to be. And no time to be now.

*sigh* the good ole days.