Do you post your real life picture in Second Life?

[So Whimsy]

Absolutely have not and will not be using RL pics in SL.

[Ted McGregor]

Just this one in the bedroom.

[Paladin Tyran]

On 10/5/2021 at 7:53 AM, Echelon Alcott said:

I used to have my RL photo in my profile, but removed it for precautionary reasons.

I'm curious how this "RL photo" from an AI-constructed version of your avatar was created. Would you mind sharing that information? Sounds really cool.

take a good picture of your SL avatar, then use apps like Faceswap or reface ( android phone) and is done. sometime effects are amazing

[Claireschen Hesten]

2 hours ago, Maitimo said:

Those artbreeder things look cool but I can't work out how you all do them. It asks for two pics and merges them, how do you just convert one pic to a RL look?

I just uploaded one pic, the portrait section was where I found the upload option it took quite a while to upload. went in to my profile found the pic clicked it clicked on something called child or children and clicked the refresh until I got something that looked the most RL. On a pic I used with an updo hairstyle a lot of the results made me look like a bloke 

[archangel969]

Well, I have a very small RL picture in my profile that isn't much revealing. But I shared a RL picture some time ago at  a question like this on the forum. I was in the opinion to keep RL and SL apart, but I experience that in my case 'RL me' and 'SL me' aren't that different. The only difference is that I don't live in a villa in RL and  my avatar doesn't get any older. But I consider my work as a writer in SL and RL as from the same source: my brain, fantasy and skills.

[Zzevir]

On 10/6/2021 at 2:37 AM, Cinnamon Mistwood said:

  Some know my real name since it's not that different than my avatar name.  

Nutmeg Fogforest? 

[Cinnamon Mistwood]

3 hours ago, Zzevir said:

Nutmeg Fogforest? 

You figured it out 😄 Are you stalking me?

I might need to make an alt with that name

[SpiritSparrow Skydancer]

I use my rl photo on my profile.  

Edited October 9, 2021 by Tarina Sewell

[Sid Nagy]

In my early days, the time that I walked the streets of SL as a female, I had Audrey Hepburn as RL picture.
Well, at least she had Dutch roots.

[Madelaine McMasters]

On 10/4/2021 at 4:51 PM, Rowan Amore said:

People can and do take other's RL pic and use it as their own.

I did. I can't tell you how hard it was to snag the picture off the ocelot's fireplace mantel.

Everybody thinks I took it from Anne.

[Scylla Rhiadra]

I wouldn't post a RL pic of myself for a number of reasons. I currently use a black and white photo of my avi, run through that app, whatever it is called, that can make you smile. I don't think it's particularly realistic, but it is enough so that I've had a few people ask if it IS a RL pic of me.

I've actually been thinking of doing what @Rolig Loondoes, which is to use the AI-processed version of my avi from Artbreeder. I think the idea of basing my RL identity on my SL one is a neat and intriguing inversion of our expectations. (If I do this, I'll be clear that it's not the RL me -- for one thing, I am a brunette in RL.)

 

Edited October 9, 2021 by Scylla Rhiadra

[ChinRey]

Speaking of RL pictures, how come so many men are so bad at aiming a camera?

Lots of guys I hardly know want to send me RL selfies even though I tell them not to, and for some reason they've always missed their face and ended up with a pic of something further down their bodies instead.

[Arkam]

13 minutes ago, ChinRey said:

Speaking of RL pictures, how come so many men are so bad at aiming a camera?

Lots of guys I hardly know want to send me RL selfies even though I tell them not to, and for some reason they've always missed their face and ended up with a pic of something further down their bodies instead.

It's to show you how intelligent we are, supposedly our brain is located in that zone you are refering  😁🤣

[Sindy Lovelace]

Not. A. Chance. 

Too easy for someone to reverse search an image and stalk you into RL.

Can you imagine what your RL friends/family/work would think of some of your wilder kinks?

You have that happen once, you'll never post a RL picture again, trust me.

And for the fragile snowflakes who need a RL pic to verify I'm a 34 year old female? Go away. Far, far away.

[SpiritSparrow Skydancer]

37 minutes ago, ChinRey said:

Speaking of RL pictures, how come so many men are so bad at aiming a camera?

Lots of guys I hardly know want to send me RL selfies even though I tell them not to, and for some reason they've always missed their face and ended up with a pic of something further down their bodies instead.

It has been so long since I had one of those selfies sent.. I wonder if my Ava is not approachable enough. ?

[Vanity Fair]

"Real life" picture?!?? What is this "real life" of which you speak?

😜

Edited October 9, 2021 by Vanity Fair

[SpiritSparrow Skydancer]

3 minutes ago, Kittycat Kiyori said:

Not. A. Chance. 

Too easy for someone to reverse search an image and stalk you into RL.

Can you imagine what your RL friends/family/work would think of some of your wilder kinks?

You have that happen once, you'll never post a RL picture again, trust me.

And for the fragile snowflakes who need a RL pic to verify I'm a 34 year old female? Go away. Far, far away.

There is nothing I do in SL I am ashamed of or would not laugh off in rl. But you are right everyone’s reasons for being in SL are their own business.. I do not judge. Sometimes a rl photo just ruins the illusion or fantasy to… I tend to take people as their avatar suggests. I react as such to. 

[Sid Nagy]

5 hours ago, Vanity Fair said:

"Real life" picture?!?? What is this "real life" of which you speak?

😜

I don't know for sure 100%, but there are people who have been there and they tell funny stories about the necessity to eat, drink, sleep, work, go to the toilet, wash yourself, wash and iron your clothes. And it really seems to rain there. There is only one day and one night in 24 hours. And no profiles and you can't inspect clothes that others are wearing without getting into arguments and an occasional fight. It is said that it is even impossible to cam into houses.
People can steel your stuff and no 60 L$ weekend sales. Strangely there are no sim crossing problems.

It must be a horrible place if you ask me.

Edited October 9, 2021 by Sid Nagy

[Katherine Heartsong]

Nope.

I live in SL (mostly) as a redhead female in her 30s, and use SL to explore things I can't safely in RL as a late 50s male.

It's so easy to fake RL pics anyway using things like "this person doesn't exist" generators that I don't trust most people's RL pics anyway. I could claim to be any of these non-existent women in a profile picture if I wanted to catfish or lie about being female (and I can RP a female convincingly if I had to) ...

Yes, these are all not real and simply generated images. Could you tell any of them aren't real?

Edited October 9, 2021 by Katherine Heartsong

[Sindy Lovelace]

9 hours ago, Tarina Sewell said:

There is nothing I do in SL I am ashamed of or would not laugh off in rl. But you are right everyone’s reasons for being in SL are their own business.. I do not judge. Sometimes a rl photo just ruins the illusion or fantasy to… I tend to take people as their avatar suggests. I react as such to. 

I'm not ashamed of anything I play with here in SL because I am a curious gal. It's why I run three avatars (not alts, just one account), so I can bring my current moods and wants into play.

But I assure you that's not an attitude that many people elsewhere, outside SL, take when confronted with kinks far outside what is considered vanilla. 

For example, how would you feel after getting hauled into the HR at your company, and shown a picture of you ... hypothetically ... at a sim that might be a place where women hang out with let's call them four-legged furries and having "fun"?

I'm okay with this in SL, sure! My actual co-workers? RL friends? Family?

I always take your avatar as how you need to express and represent, as well. easiest way to navigate. It's you behavior and actions that I keep track of.

Edited October 10, 2021 by Kittycat Kiyori

[SpiritSparrow Skydancer]

1 hour ago, Kittycat Kiyori said:

I'm not ashamed of anything I play with here in SL because I am a curious gal. It's why I run three avatars (not alts, just one account), so I can bring my current moods and wants into play.

But I assure you that's not an attitude that many people elsewhere, outside SL, take when confronted with kinks far outside what is considered vanilla. 

For example, how would you feel after getting hauled into the HR at your company, and shown a picture of you ... hypothetically ... at a sim that might be a place where women hang out with let's call them four-legged furries and having "fun"?

I'm okay with this in SL, sure! My actual co-workers? RL friends? Family?

I always take your avatar as how you need to express and represent, as well. easiest way to navigate. It's you behavior and actions that I keep track of.

How do you run 3 avatars on one account without having alts?

[Claireschen Hesten]

10 hours ago, Arkam said:

It's to show you how intelligent we are, supposedly our brain is located in that zone you are refering  😁🤣

😁 If that really is where the male brain is located it must get very sore like a headache. There was a time when certain messaging programs existed where guys used to try and get you to watch them giving their brain a good massage

[Quistess Alpha]

10 hours ago, Katherine Heartsong said:

Could you tell any of them aren't real?

Look at the ears; All of them have ear glitches of one kind or another. The last one also has a rather tell-tale distortion blob to the right.

If it were just a quick look, I wouldn't notice, but if upon close examination it becomes obvious enough.

[Nick0678]

11 hours ago, Katherine Heartsong said:

Could you tell any of them aren't real?

Real or not, they all look like they will be used in ID cards so personally i wouldn't believe for a second that someone is one of those people from the photos.

Edited October 10, 2021 by Nick0678

[Kathlen Onyx]

Anyone can find a RL photo of someone on the internet, instagram or Facebook and use that and make it look like it's a real photo.