Projecting one's Image?

[Anonymous]

Have you noticed lately that many of the "Avatars" now in use on this Community more often than not take up more screen space than the messages beside which they appear?  Is this another dimension of the "selfie" and if so what are contributors anxious to convey to their readers? 

Gerry

[Anonymous]

My smilie face says it all about me.

On a personal note ~ and the main reason I choose that avatar is because my dearly departed Mum used to sign off birthday cards etc with a smilie face.

😄

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:
My smilie face says it all about me.

On a personal note ~ and the main reason I choose that avatar is because my dearly departed Mum used to sign off birthday cards etc with a smilie face.

😄

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@Anonymous   Maybe I have confused the issue (as usual!)  -  I was speaking about the image at the left hand side of all the messages, not what we might add underneath.

[Cleoriff]

Oh but @Anonymous  (or Mr No Avatar as I shall call you now)...I just love big cats...and if I could shove them all on one avatar, I would be very happy

[aldaweb]

me - I'm just a shadow of my former self

[MI5]

If we are to be pedantic, it's called a badge 

[Cleoriff]

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@MI5 wrote:

If we are to be pedantic, it's called a badge 

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But...who asked for you to be so pedantic? (Just because its a Monday morning):aghast_smiley:

I am not wearing a cougar and cheetah badge...I have a cougar and cheetah avatar...

[Anonymous]

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@MI5 wrote:

If we are to be pedantic, it's called a badge 

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Greetings from a beautiful sunny Monday morning in the Lagan Valley.

Personally, being a renowned pedant I don't mind pedantry @MI5 , but the "image" that I referred to in my original posting is called an "Avatar" according to the Settings one may choose in this stone-age message system.   Nevertheless I am quite happy to defer to your adjudication, and so "badge" it is.

So far no one has addressed the question I posed when creating this thread (how unusual is that!!!) -  but I suppose that is because "legend" or "oracle", "enigma" or "desk jockey" or whatever  moniker regular O2 Communicants operate under they are just shy retiring wallfowers when all is said and done. 

Gerry

(The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much. ~Germain G. Glien)

[MI5]

What was the question again.......?

[Anonymous]

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@MI5 wrote:
What was the question again.......?

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Oh dear - memory is the first thing to go, they say. 

Gerry