Poll: Do you care about how you look in your profile picture? Autor de la hebra: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Do you care about how you look in your profile picture?".
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neilmac
España
Local time: 05:30
español al inglés
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So I tend to use an avatar whenever I can get away with it.
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| I don't have a profile picture | Nov 13, 2023 |
I don’t have a photo on my profile, I have a logo. I don’t think a different logo or a good photograph would get me more work. That's not why clients come to me. I must say also that on the few occasions I have outsourced work to other translators I have been more interested in their qualifications to do the job than in their appearance.
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There was some glitch with my profile picture a while ago, and I ended up replacing it. It has been my policy to limit pictures of me - and information in general - on the Internet, so I have only used one picture on all my profiles. It was in fact taken so I could use it on Proz.com, before you could assume that everyone had a digital camera!
The picture you see now is only a couple of years old, while the other one has been around for more than twenty years. The ´new´ one was t... See more There was some glitch with my profile picture a while ago, and I ended up replacing it. It has been my policy to limit pictures of me - and information in general - on the Internet, so I have only used one picture on all my profiles. It was in fact taken so I could use it on Proz.com, before you could assume that everyone had a digital camera!
The picture you see now is only a couple of years old, while the other one has been around for more than twenty years. The ´new´ one was taken as a passport photo, so it looks a bit serious, but it fits my policy.
I sometimes consider reintroducing the picture I still use everywhere else, so perhaps I do care about how I look! ▲ Collapse
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Speaking as someone who only came out as a real human being here in the last fortnight, I can tell you that it's not a decision you take lightly. So many things to agonise over. Gotta look serious, but approachable. Friendly, but still professional. Enigmatic, charismatic and hot, but without overdoing it. It's literally a minefield.
And then you realise that pretty much all the photos you have of yourself are selfies on a beach with a loved one or with friends in a pub, and that yo... See more Speaking as someone who only came out as a real human being here in the last fortnight, I can tell you that it's not a decision you take lightly. So many things to agonise over. Gotta look serious, but approachable. Friendly, but still professional. Enigmatic, charismatic and hot, but without overdoing it. It's literally a minefield.
And then you realise that pretty much all the photos you have of yourself are selfies on a beach with a loved one or with friends in a pub, and that you don't care enough to get a professional headshot done, so you plump for the only half-decent snap you can find. ▲ Collapse
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It used to be a greyish silhouette of a something between a man and woman, but I like it the way it is now.
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William Hepner 
Estados Unidos
Local time: 23:30
Miembro 2022
español al inglés
That is, if you're going to have a profile picture, I'd hope you care about your appearance. Whether you should have a profile picture in the first place, at least on this site, is another question (and clearly another poll).
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Kay Denney
Francia
Local time: 05:30
francés al inglés
Christopher Schröder wrote:
Speaking as someone who only came out as a real human being here in the last fortnight, I can tell you that it's not a decision you take lightly. So many things to agonise over. Gotta look serious, but approachable. Friendly, but still professional. Enigmatic, charismatic and hot, but without overdoing it. It's literally a minefield.
And then you realise that pretty much all the photos you have of yourself are selfies on a beach with a loved one or with friends in a pub, and that you don't care enough to get a professional headshot done, so you plump for the only half-decent snap you can find.
Thanks for the laugh Christopher. I went through much the same thought processes, multiplied by about ten because I'm a chronic overthinker, except that I have no illusions about looking hot at my age! And in the end I didn't have any even half-decent shots so I took about 300 selfies and opted for one that's a bit fuzzy so you can't see the laughter lines in too much detail. Like Christine, I don't really want Big Internet to have that many photos of me so I now use the same photo almost everywhere.
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Iman Tahanan
Local time: 07:30
inglés al persa (farsi)
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To some extent yes. I think it helps build trust. But, some aspects of photography are highly subjective. That is, different people could have various opinions about one single photo.
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