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Whether you are on Utterz, Twitter, MySpace or some forum, if a user profile has an avatar it might influence your perspective on that user.

What I’m saying is that the choice of an avatar can reflect on the person and might encourage you to pay attention to what they say or do or might turn you completely off what they say or do.

I have noticed as I’m sure you have that some people utilize sexy avatars that rarely look anything like the actual user in order to get people to follow them or pay attention to them.

In addition to looks, I often suspect that many of these avatars do not even correctly reflect the true sex of the person let alone what they look like.

So I’d just like to offer the question to everyone, “Do you ever follow someone just because their avatar is appealing or sexy?”

Now, for anyone that follows me, you will notice that I use a real headshot of myself. I do not substitute my own headshot for a picture of some babe in a bikini and I’m not graphically inclined enough to create some funny or goofy animated image(although I probably would if I could.)

I’m just more interested in whether or not there are ever occasions where you follow someone just for their looks (in their avatar).

If we are honest with ourselves we will all recognize that looks play an important role in human society from choosing a President to choosing a date or a mate and even often in hiring decisions.

I’m not saying that people hire sexy people on purpose all the time, but I do believe that very weird looking people and people that could be classified by many as ugly do suffer a disadvantage. So if you were venturing into the social media world and you weighed in at 347 with skin the consistency of melted cheese and hair in all the wrong places, might you opt for a super sexy avatar instead to sort of level the playing field on line. If so is that so wrong?

If people might choose not to follow you because you are ugly, then isn’t it fair turn about to entice them with a hot avatar that appeals to their superficial standards?

Then again, if you throw up (no pun intended) a picture of a hot model, it seems many people might think that you are a marketing company pushing quick weight loss products or insurance or snail mail spam or something in the guise of an attractive air brushed picture.