Avatars or Real profile photos?
Serhii Uspenskyi
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Do you prefer avatars or put your real photo?
Personally, I’m always about showing myself as I’m. I think it gives more trust and loyalty when people see you as real. It is also about some respect for the community from my perspective.
Avatar users, your turn!)
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Tej Garikapati@tej_sai
Hah..Avatar generation is really cool and can work for personal accounts. But for work and professional life, they just ain't there yet for me.
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I am a fan of avtars. But doesn't work. So real-life PF's.
@thehighsecond cool) why doesn’t work?
@thehighsecond but you may see that there are even Top-Hunters here with Avatars) So, perhaps that means something, what do you think?)
@serhii_uspenskyi True. Once you attain a certain reputation, whatever else you do sells is my understanding.
@serhii_uspenskyi I prefer real photo, just as you pointed out, gains some trust
Live your true self and have nothing to lose
@james_liao nice words) but curious to see if there some avatar-preferred people here to share their thoughts)
@serhii_uspenskyi These newly registered users are not our audience, I'm still experimenting, I don't have marketing yet
Still waiting for Avatar users to jump in our discussion:)) You are very welcome!
Launching soon!
@sentry_co any thoughts in this?) Excited to hear you)
Launching soon!
@serhii_uspenskyi I think we will all use avatars. And in some cases we won't have an option. Like with Apple vision pro. IF you do a video meeting. Apple will use a 3d avatar of you in the meeting. Personally I like to focus on what I do and make. Like in the US now, you cant even use a profile picture in your CV. To avoid discrimination. So many aspects. I dont have all the answers. For my persona, I just use apples Memoji. It's on all platforms, my Apple TV at home. My iPad / iPhone, SoMe etc. And soon with iOS 17 I can set my friends as memojies covering the screen when they call.
@sentry_co thanks for reply, sounds interesting. It reminds me “Black Mirror” things:) But I thinks some of these can be reality soon…
Off course real ones
Depends on where. I like pretty pictures. To find beautiful stock images and illustrations, I use the website https://depositphotos.com/stock-illustrations-and-paintings.html . They offer a huge selection of a variety of images including illustrations, photos and vector artwork. I've used this resource to create avatars and other content and the quality has always been top notch.