I have noticed the new people logging on with us have the "ghost face". That's what I call it.?
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I have an avatar that i used for a while but i hated it.  It looked stupid, and i didnt feel i could portray myself accurately, even a little bit.  However if i was a girl, that would be different.  Every female avatar looks super-cute.  So, thats why i have a "ghost face",  hope that helps.
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More than likely from a purchased or hacked mailing list that is now stale but being passed off as fresh.\n\nWhen I subscribe to what I feel is an off-the-wall company, I change my name slightly to see if they sell my info to other companies.
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Maybe, maybe not.  He might be in stealth mode.  When I log on, my messanger logs me in as invisible.  Why don't you just ask him.
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I think it's cool, but I doesn't really capture who we really are.  This avatar I have is the closest I was able to get.  And yet, I don't look like it at all.  \n\nBut it's fun to play arond with, at the least.
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May be someone else has logged into your account at the same time. Happned a lot of time with me, I have two comp. I checked remeber me, and then if anybody wanna sign in they have to log me off.
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my gf took a photo of me the other week and behind me you can see an actual person, face and all. it wasn't the flash coz it wasn't on, it's a ghost, scared the crap outa me. it looks like my gran that passed away five years ago.
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Maybe its just me, but as soon as i set up my aim member directory profile i started getting loads of messages from strangers, not just a few it was all day long, mostly junk email kind of stuff, so i would recommend not to do that.\ni emptied the profile and removed my name from the member directory and it still took weeks for the junk to stop coming.\n\ngood luck\nTV
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I can see it. It is a setting on their messenger to prefer to not view avatar.
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Are they impersonating or just took up using your name after you stopped..
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Yes, it happened to me also. I just logged out and logged back in. It's so weird!!
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are you the only user on the computer?, I had this problem with people ticking the boxes on things (ie msn messenger) to log them in automatically and if you tried to change it you couldnt
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My avatar wants to know what your avatar is doing once we're both logged off.
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A lot of people have aliases when u add them to messenger there original name appears instead of aliases name I think. It happens to me on my messenger. If u were to add me my name would change to coz I have 2 aliases and my original name.
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I'm still here.  I've been booted like 230984238 times.  Most of the other old timers are no longer active: Marriane Not Ginger, Bearded One, Dave, Mojo Man.  Monitor head still asks questions occaisonally.
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Gh I had this same problem! pissed me off to no end. I think I loged in over 30 times.. anyways it seems to be working just fine right now for me.. now that all my friends are gone. Grrr...
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looks like a virus to me... maybe even one of those script kiddie programs they use in the chat rooms....
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ask someone on your buddy list to check if they are online\nor make up another screen name then see if they are really online