like, do you associate people with different vibes or personalities depending on their avatar? or affect how approachable you find the user to be? or if there's a person/character as their icon, do you see them as looking like that?
Like yours, mitfy, I highly doubt you look like that in real life, but just that expression already tells me your very cheerful.
Unless they post IRL pictures of themselves, I can guarantee that some of the other avatars on this site doesn't look like them at all... (Like me)
For example, me.
I definitely don't look like Marie, but me and her have the same laid-back impression and laziness. (Minus the sarcasm, she's good with it.)
yeah it tends to. it kind of gives me a vision in my head of what they might be like as a person (it obv shows what they like or are interested in). i view people with unprofessional looking icons (not resized properly, blurry, etc) differently than those who have clean cut icons. i don't know why.
For first impressions it most certainly does, but after seeing more of that person's posts I can more easily tell what they're like apart from their profile pic or signature.