ID Pic.

I’m not one for flooding the internet with pictures of myself. There’s a couple of shots of me about online (including one to your right on this very blog), but in general, I keep a fairly low online presences when it comes to pictures of me. If people have an interests in you and your work, I don’t think it’s unusual or unreasonable for those people to want to know what you look like. But that said, I’m not one of those people taking daily selfies and online logging every step I take. The older I get, the more the idea of that creeps me out a little.

That’s all well and good, but it does kind of conflict with one of my modern pet hates, however. Like most people these days, I do a lot of corresponding over the internet, and I find it a tiny bit unnerving when you have no idea what the person you’re chatting to looks like. I know for some people, being anonymous is something they like when chatting online, but I find it a little off putting when you’re having a pretty deep exchange with someone over the internet, and all you’ve got looking back at you is a cartoon avatar or something. A photo of there cat or car maybe. I know I’m getting more and more in the minority on this one, but faceless correspondence is a bit of a bummer to me. How much can you really be bonding with someone, if they don’t want you to know something very basic like what they actually look like. So I thought I’d put my money where my mouth is and post an ID photo myself. Taken only yesterday, so this is what I looked like 24-hours ago. A face to put with the name, as it were.  

P.S. No judgement on anyone I have corresponded with over the net over the years who has\does  choose to go anonymous online, by the way. The internet feels like it is made up of two camps of people these days. Those who bring maybe a little too much of the real world online. Tweeting and Facebooking every little thing they do, eat, say (said the guy writing on his Blog…) And those who just want nothing more than a cartoon Avatar and to build a new persona for the online world. They want to keep their real life, and their online life separate. I’d like to think personally, I come down somewhere in the middle.