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Avatar photo apparent age?

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:37 pm
by RickG
We were hanging out with iowaguy last week. He looks about 15 years younger than his avatar. I've had multiple people tell me I need to change mine because it makes me look old. MrB? Well, geezer at heart, but still a young man.

Why do these photos make us look older?

Cheers, RickG

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:48 pm
by California Girl
OMG! I'm old enough! Maybe I should consider changing my avatar again! :shock:

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:08 pm
by cypressgirl
Rick, you do look younger in person. So does Iowa guy. He's a lot smaller than I thought he'd be. Not that he's small. I was just expecting a BIG guy.

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:11 pm
by Xislandgirl
Maybe for April Fools a few of us should swap pictures and post all day with each other's photos.

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:37 pm
by California Girl
Hey X! I'm up for that! :lol:

choose carefully

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:27 pm
by sherban
CG- I think your new pic makes you look young!

Rick- Dangerous subject...in a fun way...easy to slip up and say..."you are old!"...:-)

Once you get into 40's and later I think you gotta choose pics carefully if ya wanna look your best...cause the facts is the facts...

Case in point, below are two pics from a trip I took last summer, two pics, one I think I look in late 30's maybe and one I look like Ronald Reagan in my fifties!...the truth is somewhere in between.
Young sherban-
Image
old sherban-
Image
Hanging out with my wife makes me look younger too.... :-)

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:25 am
by linne
I haven't seen any of you, so I cannot tell, if you look younger or older in real.

Sherban, it was funny to see your two pictures. You are right. I wouldn't have guessed that the pics were from the same trip. A prove of that pics not always tell the truth. Some of the pics, which perhaps tell the truth about me, I would never post.

Linne

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:27 am
by sea-nile
That's why I changed my avatar from my picture to an angelfish and now Trunk Bay. :D

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:34 am
by JC
Rick...I must agree that you do look younger in person. Not earthshaking younger...but certainly younger. I just hate to see you change your avatar...being a creature of habit and all. If...say...you need a picture that you appear younger in...I happen to have one! hehehe

Let me know and I'll bump your pic to the front of the photoediting line... :D You'll get all the pix as soon as I finish up.

Great to meet you...Sweet Christine (Caroline... :oops: ) and the girls. You have a super family! Please say hello for me!

Jen
334 & Out

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:01 am
by RickG
JC, it was great meeting you! I'll tell the girls you said hi. More pictures of me? I think less is more here.

Cheers, RickG

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:21 am
by Steve S
Done. Sorry.

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:33 am
by RickG
Steve S wrote:Would you consider your Chessiecap photo more accurate?

This guy is 10 years younger than your avatar...
d00d, that picture is so wrong - you are totally outing me! I'm over my investment banker phase and deep back into technofetishist phase. No suits!

And... kill the picture, please!

Cheers, RickG

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:45 am
by b-as-u-r
And on the bright side, older can mean closer to retirement. However, Rick, I don't think your avatar makes you look older and I don't think Iowaguys does either. I guess I just think of the avatars as being slightly distorted anyway. Besides since I've met you both, I can't really look at either of your avatars and think of either of you as being old. (I'm sure glad that I didn't miss that pic of you in the suit though :wink: ). Ali~

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:08 pm
by Bug
I just made my own avatar. This way I can look as young as I want to - heheheh.

XOXO
Bug

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:52 pm
by cat
I can't wait for Jaz fest to meet some of you! I agree these avtars are very misleading! Then again my hair is never the same color or cut for very long and i don't have time to be updating my avatar every time it changes so you get what is there already!

This month I am a blonde! :D