>>>>Anyway, I'm just interested in seeing people's faces and it's nice to have a change every now and then.
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>>>I actually have mixed feelings about having pictures on sites like this. I like the leveling we get from not knowing what people look like, so we judge them based on what they say and do, and not their sex, race, hair color, ...
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>>>That's why I don't have a picture here.
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>>>Tamar
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>>But no shortage of pix of you elsewhere, e.g. at the conferences et al, so all hands know what you look like.
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>>I'd say there is no prejudice at all on this site, no matter what hair colour, sex or race. Everyone is treated equally and helped or criticised or argued with equally.
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>>OTOH one can form pictures in the mind of people and end up being totally wrong when the pic arrives, esp. if they cheat and show a pic of them 20 years younger, or of someone else altogether (Fabio :-)
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>This is actually a reply to Tamar but damned if I am going to wade through all the messages in this thread to find it! (I really do miss Compuserve's thread searching capabilities).
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>When I first joined the forum I thought you were a guy, as I think many others did at the time. "Wow, this guy Tamar is on here all the time!" LOL
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>I didn't have any trouble recognizing you when we finally met because your picture had been in FPA already. As usual, you didn't look like my mental image. It's odd because sometimes the mental image (imagined) sticks with me even after I meet the real person. Jim Booth and Doug Dodge come to mind. In my mind's eye Doug is still a tall, thin blond guy from California.
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>I wonder what the people who haven't met me think I look like. Probably Shrek or something like that (lol).

I do think that having a pic on here helps with your presence. I seem to remember people I have talked to easier if they have a pic on their profile. Instead of a name, they are now a face, and I remember faces a lot easier than names.

(not really a reply to your message, but I also don't want to wade through all the messages to find a better one to reply to)