What your online avatar says about you

[pillars]

Your Online Avatar May Reveal More About You Than You d Think Shots - Health News NPR

Your digital avatar gives away more hints about your personality than you might think, according to a studypublished Friday in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. And that's true even if you craft your avatar to look completely different from you.

"Despite avatars being whatever an individual wants them to be ... that person's personality can come through and be communicated accurately to others," Katrina Fong, a Ph.D. student in psychology at York University and lead author of the study, tells Shots. "Who we are in real life does to some extent drive our choices in deciding how to represent ourselves online."

Very interesting!

 

[Moonglow]

Not even close...

 

[rightwinger]

I just post a selfie

 

[Pogo]

Me too.

 

[hjmick]

I just post a selfie

You too?

 

[hortysir]

Hhhmmmm

 

[SillyWabbit]

I'm not sure what to make of all this. I'll just keep an eye on it for a while before making a final judgment.

 

[Pogo]

Steve_McGarrett

 

[Hossfly]

And here I was thinking of using Captain America for an avatar.

 

[Mad_Cabbie]

Most of the time, I use myself.

I like me!

 

[Dot Com]

mine is words

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

I'm not sure what to make of all this. I'll just keep an eye on it for a while before making a final judgment.

Remind me to tell you about crows some time. Very interesting birds.

 

[Statistikhengst]

I just post a selfie

You too?

Yepp. me too.

 

[Dajjal]

I would not normally use a selfie, but one with my birdy hanging on my glasses is to cute to waste.

 

[pillars]

Is it weird that I prefer scenery? I love the pic in my avatar. It just looks so tranquil.

 

[mudwhistle]

I used to use James Bond (Daniel Craig) on another site but I wanted people to take me more seriously, so I picked someone more rational and intellectual.




I do remember a guy who used Spock on another site and the nerd always tried to stay in character acting like he was really Spock.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Mine is of me and my most favorite singer James Otto.

God bless you and him always!!!

Holly

 

[defcon4]

Your Online Avatar May Reveal More About You Than You d Think Shots - Health News NPR

Your digital avatar gives away more hints about your personality than you might think, according to a studypublished Friday in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. And that's true even if you craft your avatar to look completely different from you.

"Despite avatars being whatever an individual wants them to be ... that person's personality can come through and be communicated accurately to others," Katrina Fong, a Ph.D. student in psychology at York University and lead author of the study, tells Shots. "Who we are in real life does to some extent drive our choices in deciding how to represent ourselves online."

Very interesting!

Is this her full name, Katrina Fong, Ph.D.? I could swear I remembered to be Katrina Fongula

 

[defcon4]

Lemme see one more time… hmmm…. … Where the fuck are my eye glasses???? Find them… no doubt, that's me.. without eye glasses of course… in case you wondered about them...

 

[Gracie]

Not even close...

LOL! VERY close, Moon. You are always mooning someone in a thread somewhere for whatever reason. Just your personality, and that avie fits you to a T.