From some of my previously postings about Twitter avatar like “How to be an Eye-Magnet on Twitter“, I suggested Twitter users to “always” use their faces as avatar images. I still think the same on that, because using a picture of you can give your followers a personal but virtual “human-to-human” communication, which means warmer engagement. But I heard some interesting theories today from a friend; Ashleigh Flower, who’s a social media newbie.

Ashleigh just created a Twitter account today, so I asked her to pick avatar carefully from her photo album, but then she told me that she wasn’t going to use her own picture for it. I asked her why, I thought she would answer me something like “I want my privacy” or “it’s the internet, I don’t want people to know how I look like!” But surprisingly, she gave me a very social media focused answer.

She said, “I don’t want people to be judgmental when they communicate with me on Twitter, especially not because of how I look. I want people to communicate with me because of my interests and content.”
I agreed on what she said, because I’m quite sure 98% of my followers talk to me only because of how good I look (joking ), but I do enjoy getting perspectives from different people, especially newbies, who can surprise you sometimes.

Feel free to follow Ashleigh on Twitter and welcome her!