Is your sl avatar you?

/me intends to focus on Portuguese-Canadian looking girls-next-door who might be working out to retain their hawtness . . .

Pep ( . . . mainly in Milton Keynes shopping centre)

Mine is shorter and chubbier than I am.

No, seriously.

Don't look at me like that.

I SAID DON'T LOOK AT ME!!

My avatar is my me that's more "me" than I am myself. But... In appearances... We're light years apart. (^_^)y

My tail is better groomed RL, and I can't wear as many metal attachments them things get heavy! And wow if I could get my hair done as fast as I do in SL.. It would be a perfect world. so to sum is up. No

My avatar doesn't look like me in real life. I'm caucasian and 5'3" and have a long brown pony tail in real life. I refuse to do more with my hair than routine maintenance and I struggle to keep my weight down.

On SL (Iyoba), I am African American, 4'8" a bit overweight (I don't have to care!) and have hair in colors nature never intended, coiffed, updone, braided, and styled. I also have a dressy style, some of which is due to being a short adult avatar who does not want to be mistaken for a child.

Several weeks ago I had a dream about walking into a McCain rally to abuse and heckel John McCain himself. I shouted out "Obama for President" and then fled the security guards by hiding in the ladies' room. I stared into the ladies' room mirror and the face that stared back at me was African American and my hair was flaming orange corn rows.

I recognized myself immediately. Of course that was how I looked. Only when I woke up did I realize whose face was my own.

Metal is pretty much me except...

I wear glasses, Metal doesn't
My hair is curlier than Metal's.
His belly is slightly smaller... only slightly...

My primary, yes; the alt, not so much so...

My avatar is pretty close to how I look in real life, even down to the jeans pumps and t-shirt. She's not exactly like me but as close as possible at the moment. I'm not the stereo typical female avi shape, ie big boobs, skinny waist and lots of hair, so I sometimes get mistaken for a guy, especially as I rarely wear a dress!

The person behind the keyboard is definitely me too... last time I checked anyway

No. And also, yes.

I wish I had asked this question.

Answer: Yes and I spent a long time on it. "Jig" is my height and my statistics and as close as I can get to my face, including the flaws. I am quite short so I added some height. My bum is a little larger than I would like. Not Much - but I see it on sl so I notice it. My nose is like mine and my lips - I have a fierce expression my mum says and a scowl. My skin colour is difficult to get right coz I have mixed parentage and ancestry - its close. My favourite hair in sl is similar to me. Sometimes I post a pic of me in profile but Jig is more concerned with her pics in sl than my pics in real.
Character-wise "Jig" is me to a "T". I am outspoken and outlandish and rude (without meaning to be) I lie awake at night worried about what I said in real. I am extrovert and passionate. I want Jig to be everything I am.
SL reactions are often the same as Rl "Who does SHE think she IS????"

I do have an avatar - skin, clothes, shape - that I created to match my RL appearance, but I don't wear it very often. One day I might be an android, the next a sloth, the next a tiny rhino. It's fun to just wear whatever I'm in the mood for - or to match the environment I am in. Don't really have any clothes to change, just hundreds of Avs.

It actually feels a bit odd to walk around in my RL inspired Av, not sure why. I do tend to walk around in a humanoid shape most of the time. I can only hang around as a beetle or nebulous cloud of particles for so long before it feels 'uncomfortable'.

no not really, i just use him to communicate in the game, i am me, not the av on the screen

No. My Avatar looks like what I remember my Barbie Doll looked like. that was 50 years ago, so not sure if the memory is good. I remember my Barbie had a pony tail, I cut it and then had to have a new one. So this Avatar has the short hair I tried to give my Barbie. The personality is me in RL.. The physical actions are that of what I use to do, with the exception of flying. hehe

*ONE* of my avatars looks like me... but I'm not telling which one...

yes.....








(this is a test)

no. My av is what I would have looked like 30 years ago if I were fit, tan, and fairly large breasted.

/me points to the picture to the left. Are you kidding? I haven't looked even close to that in 30-some years.

In all seriousness, Shelley is what I would've wanted to look like when I was her age. She's based loosely on a couple of good friends I had in high school.

No, but yes if there were no RL issues or social stigma being genitcally modified to look like a kangaroo, then I would probably do so, I think it's who I am inside
I have a RL looking alt, but find him boring..........

Doubt many people will have a avatar that looks like them.
Why would they? You can be anything you like in SL.
Most avatars in SL look very sexy and I doubt so many people in SL look that good.

As for me? I'm currently bald beared fat old man.
And no that is not what I look like in SL

My avatar was made to resemble what I looked like about 20 years ago.

Since you can be what you like in SL, a slightly creepy thought is that some people might have an avatar that is made to look like someone else they know in RL.

I gave away a bit more about me than normal in this thread - but there's a dilemma - a lot of us don't want to identify our RLs in terms of name, address etc.

Without going the whole hog (name, photo, address etc.), if you give away a lot of details about RL appearance, job, location etc. there's quite a risk that someone might think that another RL person, who's probably never even heard of SL, who fits the same description is you and could be suspected of being 'you'.

What better way to combat identity theft than use someone elses to start with

But I'm sure that must have happened - griefers making an av of somene in RL they don't like, or maybe a stalker making an av of someone they're obsessed with.

Which one? And in what respect?

Physically, Nic sometimes resembles an idealized version of the individual behind the keyboard. But there's no way I could wear (or afford) half the stuff she does or look nearly as good. And since she changes hair color and length on a whim, chances are it doesn't match up at any given moment.

Emotionally, pretty much. Sometimes certain aspects of my personality get emphasized or de-emphasized more in SL than in RL, but I'm the real person behind the persona. Nic would never act in a way the person behind the keyboard would not own.

Do I empathize with my avatar? Pretty much. I wince if she falls, I'm sad or angry if someone is unkind to her/me. (Within SL limits, though. I wince if she falls; I don't call an ambulance. I'll click on an impaled-by-a-spike or hung-by-a-noose Halloween animation, because I know it can't HURT me. I'll change into a bird or a bug or a whale, or fly 1000m in the air in SL because I can. And if someone's an ass, I'll TP home or somewhere else if I can't put up with it. But I'll feel as if it's ME they're being jerks around, not just an animation on a screen.)

My alt - physically, very little resemblance. Emotionally, yes, we're facets of the same prim. Different focus, perhaps, but same individual. Empathetically, same/same - if you cut one, both bleed. (metaphorically speaking)

In trying to answer all of your question, I can't decide if I've managed to answer any of it...