Real Avatars..... Please!

[Baddog]

Ah ha!

I found your REAL photo Peto!

Nice try.

 

[Zeremonie]

Iam getting a bit put off with J U B dudes ... whom I have no idea who they truly are or what they look like. I made the decision this was very important and put my most recent photo as an avatar. I got this idea from a thread of a guy who bitterly complained about being led on by a guy with whom he exchanged phone numbers and went the whole route only to be really let down.

Peto, I am totally confused. Please let me know what it is that I am not understanding from your passage above ... your avatar is your most recent pic?? I can see the age you put in your profile and your avatar looks - I kid you not - like 20 years younger than what I expected.

Is your post satire and I just didn't get it? Or do you really look amazingly young for your age?

I don't mean to be rude or put anyone down, but why can't there be more honesty as to whom we really are and what we are all about. I can write this with no hesitation as I do feel I am as honest and direct..... too much so....... as I can be. We are all different and we all bring something different to J U B, so why can't we bring our true self and make it that much more of a rich and rewarding experience!?

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Ecce Homo

I don't see any particular reason why I should put my face pic as my avatar. I'm not trying to meet a boyfriend here. I don't want to show off my face - I think of myself as a plain jane - and Eduardo is a gay porn star, and that's what this site is centered around (ostensibly) - gay porn. Furthermore, my sig line clarifies that my avatar is not me. I just don't think it is ever safe to assume that a person's avatar really represents him or her other than to the extent it is a picture that that JUBber likes.

 

[Zeremonie]

I agree with you.Peto's avatar looks like a 16 year old young man.

LOL - My hand is on the big red ban button.

 

[springboksfan]

i do find it interesting that more guys don't use SPORTS images as avatars.

NOW, I KNOW we're GAY and all that but its interesting to see no sports team insignias (is that what they're called -sppports logos?) used as an avatar. and no one I have yet seen here is Jose Canseco.

Uhm, hello? Springboksfan. See the little deer-like thingy in my sig? It's the logo for the South Africa Springboks rugby team. Much more Neil de Kock or Corne Krige than Jose Canseco, but athletically inspired nonetheless!

But just to add a few pixels more sport to JUB, I'll change my avatar from the triquetra to the logo of another of my favorite teams, the Colorado Avalanche (did you see the game Monday night? Wow!).

but my fav avatars tend to be those which make some statement - whatever that statement might be.

an avatar should say something about yourself - your inner self - that perhaps words in a post can't quite say.

I do understand what you're saying, though, ds. And I must say I completely agree. I'd much rather see an avatar that symbolized something about our JUB brother (or sister) than necessarily to see him or her. Symbolism is powerful and enlightening in a way that a face pic is not. Excellent post!

 

[Soilwork]

<< Me.

no, really.

Who in their right mind would put a picture like that up and claim it was them?

 

[GL]

an avatar should say something about yourself - your inner self - that perhaps words in a post can't quite say.

That's my avatar philosophy.

Agreed! Great post ds.

I like to think that my avatar does say something about myself. It would hopefully show that I'm somebody who loves the things that makes me happy. That I haven't quite grown up, or at least abandoned all those things that I enjoyed as a child.

I have not posted an avatar with my mug on it. In fact, I've never posted a self pic of any kind here on JUB. I guess I'm just not ready for all that kind of attention. For those who do and have galleries full of their own pics, I admire you all for it.

 

[nwdavis]

So of those that do not have true pictures of themselves may not have a digital camera of access to one. Just a thought. But mines real. It took me while though because I didn't know how to resize the damn thing to the avatar size requirement.

 

[Corkles]

I would never post my photo on this website (or prob any other). There are too many bitchy,evil,unrealistic people that frequent this space and I don't feel the need to be judged by them.

Kudos to you and anyone else who is confident enough to post your pics

 

[Twisly]

...and in my opinion an avatar is supposed to represent you...not necessarily be you.

uhuh!! right!

 

[Elworth]

I'm too lazy to make one the size your avatar is supposed to be. Plus, I don't have a whole lot of self esteem, so I'd rather people judge me off of my personality, which I feel is a better representation of myself...

 

[Soilwork]

It's funny how many sad, old, tired and past it people post here, slag those of us who use our own pics and call us "fake" while they use photos in their avatars of pporn stars who are 40 years younger than they are.

funny peculiar, not funny ha-ha.

 

[dpnice]

Honestly I thought that I would never post a photograph of myself for a multitude of reasons.

This is a gay site and therefore youth and beauty are appreciated but not essential, thank goodness, to value the comments made by members.

Most of the logic for not posting yourself has already been mentioned and I am certain that most of us agree with and understand the reasons why people do not reveal their physical aspect.

A person's physical appearance influences my relationship with them, even on Internet, shallow perhaps but I think many of us are like that. I don't have a great self image, presentable but not great. I was also worried that knowing how I looked might have influenced the inter-reactions that I have experienced so far.

Well if you are interested the "Official Christmas 2005" photograph is now posted, just go search for it if you want to know what I look like.

 

[nwdavis]

It's funny how many sad, old, tired and past it people post here, slag those of us who use our own pics and call us "fake" while they use photos in their avatars of pporn stars who are 40 years younger than they are.

funny peculiar, not funny ha-ha.

You noticed that too. I thought it was just me.

 

[dpnice]

It's funny how many sad, old, tired and past it people post here.

Well that is an objectionable manner to describe your fellow jubbers.

As a member of this group I must assume that you don't appreciate my presence here, at least that is the impression I get from reading that comment.

I think that you are making an assumption not really based on factual evidence. How many of our 1000s of members have actually slagged of people for using photographs of themselves? 100s, 50, 10 or perhaps only 1?

I think that the majority of us "sad, old, tired and past it people" appreciate enormously and admire the courage of those younger and older members who reveal what they look like.

Life is unfair, not all of us have a physical appearance of which we are proud. We grow old, we are overweight or we are just downright ugly and it takes a considerable amount of self confidence to exhibit that to others.

Since joining JUB I have come to think of it as a home where everyone is welcome, old or young, beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, witty or dull, obnoxious or adorable. Obviously you don't agree.

To finish this diatribe might I add that perhaps your comments are one of the reasons that many of us don't dare post a photograph of ourselves, one's self esteem can be extremely fragile and a careless comment can hurt even the strongest.

 

[hunky]

I actually put my pics in my personal album. that is the farthest I go. In my avatar, not yet, still to shy! (and ugly).

 

[quasar]

I've always used my pic in my avatar - normally it's an 'artistic' pose from about 5 years ago. Since Christmas I've used my face - dunno why, it could just be that I'm comfortable at JUB to use it, and it also stops people asking who I really am ie. I am not anyone famous!!!

 

[z-zver]

<< It's not me. And it doesn't represent me. It's just an avatar. I like it now. Probably, tomorrow I'll like another one and change this. Who said that we should be ourselves in the Internet??

 

[snapcat]

<<<really is the Snapcat!

 

[winterknight]

There aren't any pictures of me that are both recent and decent in existence. The most recent one of me that I can find is two years old, and I'm standing at the back of a group of people at my grandmother's birthday. And I've lost a lot of weight since then, so it really isn't what I look like now.

I think I'll stick with Larry.

 

[honestly-lieing]

Hmmmmm, I love lurking around here for months and reading peto's complaints.