An avatar is a user’s representations of his self used on forums or communities.
Sam : An electronic representation of you that reflects your personality.
Tyrone : It is a character used to hide your true identity on the internet. It can take the form of a picture or a moving object.
2. Does definition of what character or personality your avatar has would only be defined in the role-playing games? Explain your answers.
Sam : No, because the mere look of your avatar and it’s clothes, accessories and facial expression of you avatar defines itself.
Tyrone: No, because the widespread usage of avatars are also evident in blogs and forums so as to protect you and your personal affairs. Moreover, it is also used to further express yourself in the internet. A good example are the ones used in YAHOO! Messenger.
3. Do you want to be defined as an individual or entity virtually based on your avatar or online name? Why or why not.
Sam : No, because the avatars that people make, me for instance, doesn’t always reflect my personality. The avatars that I make reflects what I want to be, not who I am.
Tyrone: I don’t want to be judged as because of my alias or avatar. For me, these are your online counterparts of what you dream of thus it should not define what you are as person.
4. Do you find any significance of having a purposeful avatar or online identity?
Sam : Yes, because what people perceive in your avatar defines your identity and affects how people see you and how they will treat you online.
Tyrone: Absolutely, because in people that can see your avatar tend to sense you as a human being as the avatar is your representation in the internet. So having a meaningful one can really help you in gaining new friends.
5. Does having multiple characters imply negative or positive impact to the person? Give at least two examples and explain your answers.
Sam : No. For example, if you make multiple avatars based on your personality, it only means that you chose to concentrate in different sides of your personality. Another example is, if you chose to make avatars that reflect your aspirations, it only means that you have many dreams. Having multiple characters doesn’t necessarily mean that there is something wrong with you.
Tyrone: Personally, for me having multiple characters imply nothing. Because people tend to mature thus making multiple characters to properly represent themselves. I, myself, have multiple accounts because as I go into college I felt that I should be more formal so I screwed my former email address solely for FB notifs. and made a new one for more important stuff. But, if you’re going to use it with malicious ideas to deceive people like what happened to me in an online game I used to play the I guess that would be negative. But generally, I think it depends on the person’s motive.
6. If you will be asked to make an avatar for yourself today as a Social Being in the #Socmed class, how will you draw your avatar? And what #onlinename will you use?
Sam : I will make an avatar based on my personality and I will use the online name crazylittledreamer.
Tyrone: I think I would make an avatar close to what I look personally. I have one through YAHOO!’s avatar service. As for the alias, I think I will make use of my initial and maybe add some special characters to it.
MY AVATAR :)
My avatar is really simple and it reflects my personality.
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