Why do so many people on mylot have pictures of their kids as their avatars?

I have a picture of myself and my kids. My kids are older though and go online themselves. But I watch them and the pictures they choose to put of themselves online. I think most people here do it "show off" their kids in a sense. Like you would if you were showing someone a scrapbook.

it is basically for the fact that when you are a mom, you tend to become proud of your children and one way of showing off your kid is through pictures. i do love showing off my daughter's pics but i only choose sites that are really legal to post.

I do it to show my beautiful babies off!!! I never thought of it in a bad way or think that something bad could happen to them from it. Thanks for bringing it up! I'll have to think about it...I mean, how could someone use it against you? Do you think that they would target your children out to sexually or physically harm them? Is that how you mean it? Or for someone to just steal them? You bring up a good point!

everybody has own likes or dislikes and everybody has the right to express their desire. very simple who those are married, loves their children from heart and soul. no doubt so i do not have any objection to see child's picture at least being a father of 6 years old baby girl. thanks.

It's pretty common to have a picture of yourself up as an avatar on websites, but sometimes people are too embarrassed or (like me) get tired of looking at their own face while they are on the site.

Well I think people are just so proud of there kids that they like to show them off. Its not like people know who you are.I my self put up cartoons. I don't care for anybody that doesn't know me, know what i look like. Do you really care what people look like. Do you pay attention. I really don't. I perfer cartoon pics myself. I love making online friends but don't really care what they look like.

I think you hit it on the nose. Many users are stay at home moms and I know this won't be a popular statement but I think many moms lose their own identity when they have children and it's all they can think about and it does in fact represent all that they are. For me this is no different than talking about your kids in your user name or E-mail address. For example, my best friend and I of 20 years stopped keeping in touch because after we had kids, she became a stereotypical suffocating soccer mom and I stayed true to who I was. All she could do was talk about her kids and there was so much more to me even though I love my children very much. My children don't define who I am and I don't get along with women who dote on their kids obsessively. I just don't get that mentality. I have more talents that are much more interesting IMHO than proof of successful procreation ROFL. Also, while I do have a few pics of my girls up on my MySpace page for my friends to see, I would never have one of their pictures as one of my main avatars simply because of the amount of pedophiles out there. I wouldn't want some creep drooling over a picture of one of my girls. So long story short, I'm with you on this one.

I am a little late joining this conversation filmbuff, forgive me. Over the weekend my 5th grandchild was born. A boy :)) so I am just finally getting caught up with everyone here. This is a perfect place to interject my new family member :))) I have left my views on this topic in comments.

I thought about putting my son as my avatar, because he's so cute and I love to show him off. =p However, it wouldn't really represent me. Part of talking online for me is having time that is mine, that I can use talking to other people. So representing myself through my son's face just doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. I like my current avatar because I don't really want to use my picture, but the character in my picture is someone I relate to.

I don't know why people would use their kids pictures for their avatars. I personally wouldn't. Not since seeing the whole deal on cafemom about myspace baby picture stealers. These people would go into someone's profile that was set on public. And copy and steal those people's pictures and then they would set up a fake profile with them. They would play like they were orphans and their friends would play adopt them. They would make little baby s3x stories up and sometimes even "kill" them off; sickos! So, that is why I would never use my children's pictures as my avatar even though I do love them and think they are the cuteset kids in the world.