Am I missing something? Why are so many of you , that have been on Forum a long time, suddenly using blank or generic avatars? Are we boycotting something ? I know that I have been changing mine more frequently, but that's better than generic ones. Looks as though you no longer have a personality without one.
If there's a boycott, someone needs to let me in on it. I love me some righteous indignation. I don't even need to know what I'm talking about!!! Since you raised the subject of avatars: I don't like it when people change theirs. I lose my frame of reference as to who the member is.
@Beth Gallagher and @John Brunner - seriously? I like change to some things, plus I get tired of looking at Me
I am fine with it either way (keeping the same one or changing it), and I also like to change mine when the mood strikes me. The people who remove their avatar seem to think they are making some kind of statement, I guess, but it never has any positive results. We have a few people who simply do not know how to post an avatar (or any picture), and Ken has helped some of those people when they explained they were not able to post their avatar. Joy is a good example of that. Her computer is so ancient that she can’t post a picture on here at all. We have also talked about using some kind of symbol that Ken could just put up for people who do not have any kind of an avatar, and I am in favor of that. Some places just put up a letter from their name (or username), so mine would be a “Y”, for example. It would be similar to how Ken put up the RIP avatar for members who have passed away. I try to direct new people to the little box where you can set up preferences and post an avatar, but some people still do not use one, for whatever reason.
As @Yvonne Smith said, lots of people change them all the time. It takes me a while to get used to the new face. I've not changed mine since I've been here.
I like change on some things. Other wise life gets boring. Mark eats the same dang thing for lunch everyday..ham sammich and chips. Boring.. I like different stuff to eat .
Mine is a avatar @Shirley Martin made for me just after I joined this forum , it was taken off a photo taken when I was 41 year old….i didn’t have long hair as in avatar ( when DH and I got married )
I can't imagine having the same thing like that over & over. I don't like having the same thing for dinner even 2 days in a row...leftovers gotta skip a day.