Fast forward, things have changed. Covid-19 taught us to work from home, use online means to do business including daily work.
We started working online, meeting online, buying things online and even going to church online. Some of these won't go away soon as they greatly improved on convenience and saving of resources including time management.
In online transactions, people work and relate based on trust due to the absence of physical interaction. This necessitates the need to have an open and trusted "personality" which is mostly gauged based on the information one shares out there. These include
1. Your name
2. Your physical and postal address
3. Your profile photo
4. Etc
People have different perception and feeling towards sharing their photos online. Here's my opinion though...
Not everyone you talk to online, in Whatsapp groups, Facebook, etc knows you personally, have your contact or know your alias/aka names.
There comes a time where you need someone urgently and you don't have their contacts because of various reasons. Maybe you lost their contact, changed your phone or have never saved their contacts before. They will use your photo and/or name to look for you in a Whatsapp group for example.
We can't be able to cram people's contacts off head but can remember their names and how they look.
For either fear of showing their faces online, most people either leave it blanc, put a car or house, or family members.
Profile photos are meant to make people identify you fast for proper interaction. There's a reason a silhouette has the "Face" of a person (Man/woman) because it's meant to be a face.
Thanks for reading through as you purpose to upload a real photo of yourself for ease of interaction.
My views though....
Regards
Jeremiah Mauti
(Jeremy BigBrother/Kialambe)
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