Accept a FR without a profile pic?

_Timmeh_

For realz that's me in the pic

ElizabethRoad

I think "some kind of picture" is better than nothing. I want to know the person asking is serious enough about weight loss/health to put some effort into their profile.

the 2 of my friends which don't have pictures posted, both have not been on MFP for 3 and 11 days.

My profile has nothing to do with how serious I am about weight loss. I got over the novelty of filling out profiles and choosing profile pictures back in the AOL days. I'm not going to put any effort into my profile because the profile is not important to me.

PirateJenny

Just to offer a different (but probably not terribly common) side of things; I do not have a profile pic because I am phobic about having my picture taken.

This may sound like an exaggeration, and I kind of wish it were, but I experience a severe (I respond to them as one might upon seeing a person coming at you with a loaded gun screaming they are going to kill you) amount of anxiety around cameras and visual recording equipment. This has been going on since childhood, family photos stop having me in them at around age 9 and I am not in any middle or high school yearbooks.

I submit to it out of sheer necessity; my DMV, work ID & passport photos look as though I am going to simultaneously faint, attempt to run away, start screaming, and vomit. So it goes.

Luckily it is not a life-altering phobia, like agoraphobia or anthropophobia, but it does annoy or frustrate people who see having ones picture taken or being in a brief section of video as no big deal or just something to grit your teeth and get over.

I have a great deal of personal, even embarrassing, information about myself on my home page and my diary is open to my friends. I am willing to chat and share even more information about myself, I just do not have a photo of myself on my page.

The cat really is my cat, she is a total photo *kitten* and has no problems displaying herself for the camera.

Forgot to summarize: There is more to a person than whether they post a photo of themselves or not and it should not be a reason to assume they are not being honest. As others have pointed out, photos people post and claim to be personal and current may not be and there is no easy way to verify that they are.

Newf77

I actually like profile pictures that are something other than a head shot, it shows me a little bit about a persons personality. This is not a romance site so I really could careless about Race, Creed, Color, Gender or times you fell down the tree. We are here to support each other in a fit life style.

MusicKeepsMeSane

I will only accept a FR from someone who typed a message with it and has a profile pic. It doesn't have to be of them or their face but if it's just blank with no pic, I'm not accepting!

WarriorMom2012

<---- This is actually a picture of me!

Football_N_Guns

<---- This is actually a picture of me!

You're a taco?

dragonbait0126

I just haven't taken the time to do one yet. I'm not sure how much it really matters. I friend people whether they have a pic or not, they're looking for a friend not eye candy. LOL Plus like someone else said, some people use pictures that are either not current or not of themselves - some use their pics for motivation or for fun/expression.

Might get frisky and put up a pic here soon. I just hate the hassle of dealing with different avatar specs on different forums so I rarely update the ones I do have. LOL

The funny thing is I don't actually friend-request many people, only if I know them from somewhere else or if I just really like something they've said in the forums, most of my 'new' friends are people that request *me*, just me, w/o a pic. I guess they liked something I said, too. :-)

^^^All of this! The majority of the people on my friend's list did the same thing. They reached out to me. I keep meaning to upload one and just haven't because most of the time I'm on here from work and can't upload one from my work computer.

writtenINthestars

<---- This is actually a picture of me!

You're a taco?

Not just any taco...but a PINK one........

Miss_Chievous_wechange

<---- This is actually a picture of me!

baahahaha

argharna

I won't accept unless they have SOME profile pic. It does not have to be a pic of them though.

The same for me. just as long as its not the default pic I dont care.

CMmrsfloyd

I just haven't taken the time to do one yet. I'm not sure how much it really matters. I friend people whether they have a pic or not, they're looking for a friend not eye candy. LOL Plus like someone else said, some people use pictures that are either not current or not of themselves - some use their pics for motivation or for fun/expression.

Might get frisky and put up a pic here soon. I just hate the hassle of dealing with different avatar specs on different forums so I rarely update the ones I do have. LOL

The funny thing is I don't actually friend-request many people, only if I know them from somewhere else or if I just really like something they've said in the forums, most of my 'new' friends are people that request *me*, just me, w/o a pic. I guess they liked something I said, too. :-)

^^^All of this! The majority of the people on my friend's list did the same thing. They reached out to me. I keep meaning to upload one and just haven't because most of the time I'm on here from work and can't upload one from my work computer.

Well I finally added one just now. LOL It's not completely current, it's from September so I had lost about 10 lbs at that point, now I'm down another 15. But it's a cute picture that I really like. It was actually much easier to add here than some other sites. Unfortunately it's fuzzy, probably b/c it was taken with a phone and then I loaded it from Facebook and I think they murder picture quality. But hey, it's something for the people that can't stand the blue guy. LOL

Bonita_Lynne_58

I don't have one of me because I haven't been able to get one from my camera's memory card to my computer. I do always send a message with a friend request.

Cait_Sidhe

I really don't care either way if someone has a profile pic or not. It makes their posts more recognizable, that's about all.

gabriella_0577

I think "some kind of picture" is better than nothing. I want to know the person asking is serious enough about weight loss/health to put some effort into their profile.

the 2 of my friends which don't have pictures posted, both have not been on MFP for 3 and 11 days.

My profile has nothing to do with how serious I am about weight loss. I got over the novelty of filling out profiles and choosing profile pictures back in the AOL days. I'm not going to put any effort into my profile because the profile is not important to me.

Well said.