Influence of Avatars and Images: are you affected?

reply to post by redoubt

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I'd have to agree... it is based more from writing style than avatar (or no avatar/img.) for me, as well...

Thanks for bumping up the thread! I keep finding new info. to add to it...

Excellent topic and one that shouldn't ever really grow old.

Cheers

I just liked the image, thought it was sort of unique. I've always had a "thing" about eyes (their psychospiritual connotations). I'm a gold investor, among other things, and I'm also deeply interested in many forms of spirituality. The avatar perhaps expresses this odd mix of the spiritual and the material that I often find myself enmeshed in.


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reply to post by Bringer

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That would be implying that everyone who watches anime or admires anime styled characters is thirteen years old.

(And that also leads me to speculate that you are implying that lesser age, relates to ignorance, thus making someone with an anime avatar, ignorant)

Not the case.

1)I myself use an anime avatar and don't see how that relates whatsoever to the age of the user.
2)Although ignorance can reflect off of age, it does not always, and assuming what you were implying were true, there would still have to be a relationship with anime, and age. There is not.

It does however show their tastes in character style, but it gets deeper than that, with the colors, and overall "feel" of the avatar.





On the note of avatars, I feel that they reflect off of the user who displays it in terms of personality, and openness, but in the more critical, or skeptical population usually their avatars reflect off of how they want to be perceived, turning out to be more manipulative.

reply to post by LadySkadi

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Great post. It is interesting how our avatars let us perceive what the posters biases are, temperament, discrimination's, how they were brought up,who their friends are and what they are looking for in life.

LadySkadi, with your avatar I perceive you are female, you like collecting "girly things" though in reality you may be tom-boyish. You have a good relationship with your parents and you have 3 or 4 really close friends. You might have the ability to quell alot of family problems as they might come to you as advice. You like horses.
You might have some dental problems but they are taken care of now. You had your drivers license earlier than your friends. And you might have been raised in a rural area out of the city. You might also have a tatoo of a design on your back. You read books from time to time of medieval/romance type subjects. You might even wished you were a princess in your childhood.

That is the type of things people perceive when they look at peoples avatars. I'm not sure how close I was to any of my guess's but it is what goes through minds at the subconscious level while our avatars are being observed.

reply to post by wiredamerican

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Off on some minor things but that was close! Well done.

ETA: do I know you?


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One of the trends I've noted on the Web in the last few years (on ATS as well as elsewhere) is more males picking female avatars. In the past, I think this was rarer, perhaps because people identified their avatars more deeply with themselves. Now I think there has been a shift, where more people are pick their avatars based on their desires rather than their true selves. If so, it would account for the proliferation of beautiful female avatars by male posters.

No we do not know each other, I was testing my psychic abilities with image perception. I take it that its working.

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reply to post by wiredamerican

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The following is not to 'dis' your insights... they are just my own personal observations...



NOTES: About 6 in 10 females pass through a Tomboy stage. Many of these carry some of that into adulthood. My daughter was this and to a degree, still is. Her years playing fastpitch softball has led her to be a big sports fan... though she has also embraced her feminine side most closely along the way.


NOTES: Females tend to have more overall acquaintances than males, but fewer close friends. Those whom they do draw close to are often their friends for life. Females, almost as a rule, do like horses, birds and cats (even those allergic to them.) They are also more family oriented and tend to find family divisions as pointless.


NOTES: Females often suffer from calcium deficiencies, mainly from menstruation and childbearing. This often leads to dental issues.


NOTES: Why is it that guys just can't get this part of growing up right the first time?



NOTES: Females, if they choose to have a tattoo, will almost invariably choose a shoulder/back, upper (above) breast or leg-calf.


NOTES: What little girl ever did not?

Oh, I just got played? Should have put more thought into that before reacting with a post. Also, very good insight...

My thread topic (the original post) has been taken and re-posted in various blog sites. Word for word, no less. Interesting.

Here's a few:

Current.com
LiveLeak.com



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Thank you Mods. - for looking into this. Appreciate it!



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