Why does everyone use Avatars?
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The pictures are nicer, but the avatars are better than the square box smiley face, but then, the avatars are quite limited on choices.  My picture represents my personality...yes, I am quite squirrelly.
1134803
And many white women have black avatars. So what? The avatar is not intended to be placed on the identity card.
867156
I agree!  I am older too, and I've noticed the same thing.  HOWEVER, I'm not sure I'd choose the avatar with the wrinkles!  haha  I do wish they would give more choices on the faces.  There are lots and lots of choices on backgrounds and clothing, etc, but not enough on our actual looks.\n\nI guess you could upload your own picture, but I'm a little more private than that.
643691
The avatars come out of Yahoo! Messenger whose target audience just happens to be teen-young adult. If the older demographic increases enough, I'm sure they'll add older avatars since the demand would be high enough.
694225
Change your avatar.  You mean the drawing, right?  That's the avatar - the screen profile is something else entirely.
410314
uuuumm...cause they're lame...I judge your avatar a 9...\n\n\nThere are more closed/narrow minded people on the planet than not...people just suck!
104478
The only problem with that - is if you want to use the avatar here on Yahoo Answers - you can't they only let you use the ones that are in your 360 account and that account only lets you use JPG images.  \n\nI tried to us GIF but it didn't let me.   Maybe they will in the future.\n\nIf they do let us in the future there ar a few good programs out there - Fireworks (micromedia) is good but expensive -  You can get ULead Gif animator - It have that and it is easy to work with and inexpensive.  Got it at Staples I think.
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http://dhvrm.blogspot.com/2006/04/using-avatar-in-yahoo-answers.html
942374
They put up fat avatars? It's jsut that I haven't gone for a while and haven't explored what they offer
184517
yeah i love the avatars.  well you can go to avatar.yahoo.com and download your avatar, yup.  it's at the home page of that website.  it will say something like "put your avatar on your blog!"  click that and on the top of the webpage it will say something like "download" and you'll be able to download your avatar there.  then you can print it out.  as for the origin of "avatar"...i do not know.  i looked up avatar on wikepedia.org and it showed some india dieties or gods or something.
312732
Good questions! Let's ad to them.- Why is it our avatars have to have a back ground, clothes, accessories and pets, even though all that we see of it is the head?
939643
Sometimes you need copy write to load avatars as they are known.\nThere are programs you can load to your site for movable graphics but if you got the animation from another web site it is probably "read only" which means sorry but you cannot !
211217
Stinkerbell, where have you been.  Obviously not on the internet in the last say....year.  Are you sure your not stuck in the desert with me???\n\nAn avatar are those cuties little pictures that you see when you do chats and message boards.  Now in order for me to get the best answer, I have to provide more than that but for such wealth, you must promise me best answer!\n\nThe secret to avatars is not so much what picture you want but knowing the size that will be projected onto the screen.  It all comes down to dpi or pixels.  You see you cannnot take a picture that your boyfreind took of you and just jam it in and make it an avatar.  Its kind of like putting ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag.  If your new to this thing I would recommend picking one that is on most sites or you can do a search like "avatar and flowers" or "avatar and ladybugs"\n\nLastly, lol is not the proper way to end such a question.  People will think you not serious and say piss on your question and leaving wonder for eternity.\n\nAlways glad to help, the answer man.\n\nHappy avatar hunting on the web!
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I hope you mean the avatars.. the cartoony looking people? If you click on your own name (up above where it says how many points you have etc...) you can click on "EDIT" where all of your information is and then select what you wish to show.\nHope this helps, if not, add on to your question because I'm not certain what you mean =)
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You make avatars at http://avatars.yahoo.com\n\nTo import it to Answers, go to My Q&A, edit your profile and import it from there.
157010
There are programs that allow you to save anything you find online, or you can use Alt + Print Screen. Another thing to do is to just go to Yahoo! Avatars and make it yourself. There are only a limited number of avatars that can be made so it shouldn't be too hard.
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Excuse me, how will you download the Avatar?\nYou can download the Image. If you edit then , I don't think it will be illegal unless you use it for commercial purpose.