Editing Avatar (computing) (section)

===Social media===
Another use of the avatar has emerged with the widespread use of [[social media]] platforms. There is a practice in social media sites: uploading avatars in place of real profile image. Profile picture is a distinct graphics that represent the identity of profile holder. It is usually the portrait of an individual, logo of an organization, organizational building or distinctive character of book, cover page etc. Using avatars as profile pictures can increase users' perceived level of [[social presence]] which in turn fosters reciprocity and sharing behavior in online environments.<ref>{{Cite conference |author1=Teubner, T. |author2=Adam, M. |author3=Camacho S |author4=Hassanein K. |title=Understanding Resource Sharing in C2C Platforms: The Role of Picture Humanization |conference=[[Australasian Conference on Information Systems]] |year=2014 |url=https://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10292/8101/acis20140_submission_352.pdf |access-date=2015-03-22 |archive-date=2016-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027083304/https://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10292/8101/acis20140_submission_352.pdf |url-status=dead }} Retrieved 23 March 2015.</ref> According to MIT professor [[Sherry Turkle]]: "...{{nbsp}}we think we will be presenting ourselves, but our profile ends up as somebody else – often the fantasy of who we want to be".<ref>Turkle, Sherry. "Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other" Basic Books (2011): 153.</ref>