[B][SIZE="3"] EnviroCitizen , The avatar feature has been enabled so members can personalize their screen name with an image !!! There is a size limit on avatars of 90 x 90 pixels ... Please keep your images appropriate or they will be removed ... To upload an avatar go to your user CP ( control panel ) click the edit avatar control and upload an image from your computer or copy and paste an URL from the web , then save that setting and your done !!!

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Courtesy of Google ...
An avatar is a computer user's representation of himself/herself or alter ego, whether in the form of a three-dimensional model used in computer games,[1] a two-dimensional icon (picture) or a one-dimensional username used on Internet forums and other communities,[2][3] or a text construct found on early systems such as MUDs. It is an object representing the user. The term "avatar" can also refer to the personality connected with the screen name, or handle, of an Internet user.[4] This sense of the word was coined by Neal Stephenson[5] in 1992's Snow Crash who co-opted it from the Sanskrit word avatāra which is a concept similar to that of incarnation.