Poll: When did you take the photo of yourself in your profile?
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Jul 26, 2025

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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 03:02
Membro (2007)
Inglês para Português
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I don't show myself Jul 26, 2025

I have a logo...

Zea_Mays
 
Mario Chávez
Mario Chávez
Estados Unidos da América
Local time: 22:02
Inglês para Espanhol
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And the intrusive polls continue Jul 26, 2025

Proz, take a hint. Some people show an image, not a face photo; some show their logo or some other distinctive symbol. I'm sure some people show a 1-month or 6-month-old photo. Who cares? You shouldn't.

2nd hint: stop letting your teenage kid write up these poll questions, will you?


Josephine Cassar
Thayenga
Alex Lichanow
Lingua 5B
Zea_Mays
Philip Lees
Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
 
Thayenga
Thayenga  Identity Verified
Alemanha
Local time: 04:02
Membro (2009)
Inglês para Alemão
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I don't remember Jul 26, 2025

Most certainly in the past millennium.

 
Alex Lichanow
Alex Lichanow
Alemanha
Local time: 04:02
Inglês para Alemão
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AI training? Jul 26, 2025

Mario Chávez wrote:

Proz, take a hint. Some people show an image, not a face photo; some show their logo or some other distinctive symbol. I'm sure some people show a 1-month or 6-month-old photo. Who cares? You shouldn't.

2nd hint: stop letting your teenage kid write up these poll questions, will you?


I mean, would it be beyond ProZ to train some botshit algorithm to discern the age of people's photos?


Philip Lees
Maria Laura Curzi
 
Angie Garbarino
Angie Garbarino  Identity Verified
Local time: 04:02
Membro (2003)
Inglês para Italiano
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I change my photo quite often Jul 26, 2025

The one you can see now was taken in January 2024

 
Oscar Núñez Alfaro
Oscar Núñez Alfaro  Identity Verified
Costa Rica
Local time: 20:02
Inglês para Espanhol
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I did it recently! Jul 26, 2025

I like to refresh my profiles pictures. It helps me to start a new chapter in my profession and life.

 
Mario Chávez
Mario Chávez
Estados Unidos da América
Local time: 22:02
Inglês para Espanhol
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And that beggars the question... Jul 26, 2025

Why, oh, why? And then they're begging us to renew our membership.




Alex Lichanow wrote:

Mario Chávez wrote:

Proz, take a hint. Some people show an image, not a face photo; some show their logo or some other distinctive symbol. I'm sure some people show a 1-month or 6-month-old photo. Who cares? You shouldn't.

2nd hint: stop letting your teenage kid write up these poll questions, will you?


I mean, would it be beyond ProZ to train some botshit algorithm to discern the age of people's photos?


 
Philip Lees
Philip Lees  Identity Verified
Grécia
Local time: 05:02
Grego para Inglês
Other Jul 27, 2025

I didn't take the photo. Somebody else did.

Alex Lichanow
Zea_Mays
Philippe Etienne
expressisverbis
Maria Laura Curzi
 
Denis Fesik
Denis Fesik
Local time: 05:02
Inglês para Russo
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What I see in the mirror is pretty much what my old pic shows Jul 28, 2025

"Old" is, like, at least 10 years back. I bought a new phone lately and still haven't tested the camera. My one and only selfie was taken when I was in a vehicle park in the middle of nowhere and invented a funny way to wear my hat. I just wanted to take a look, and the only way I could do it was by using my then-new phone (not yet stolen). I'm in St. Pete, a place where people go to take pictures, and yet the only time I feel like taking pictures is when I'm out in the wild. Too bad you can't u... See more
"Old" is, like, at least 10 years back. I bought a new phone lately and still haven't tested the camera. My one and only selfie was taken when I was in a vehicle park in the middle of nowhere and invented a funny way to wear my hat. I just wanted to take a look, and the only way I could do it was by using my then-new phone (not yet stolen). I'm in St. Pete, a place where people go to take pictures, and yet the only time I feel like taking pictures is when I'm out in the wild. Too bad you can't use a mobile phone camera to capture sunsets from some of the places I've been to. I mean, the camera does capture something, but it's never on par with what your eyes can see. I also had pictures of praying mantisses (one green, one yellow), a camel spider, a tarantula, and a big grasshopper. That dude was just sittting on my arm and posing, and jumped away when I was done filming. The yellow praying mantiss was also sitting on my arm as I showed him to the guys who were around. He turned his head looking at the circle of monsters around him and then decided that I was the main enemy. And he jumped right at where he thought the enemy's head was but landed on the arm again. His fight was over (that is, I let him go free, there's no way I'd kill him). Those pictures are all lost now. I had to visit a photo studio lately because I had to change my internal passport on reaching the age of 45. Maybe one day that picture will adorn (or disfigure) my profile page. Or maybe it won't...Collapse


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Josephine Cassar
Josephine Cassar  Identity Verified
Malta
Local time: 04:02
Membro (2012)
Inglês para Maltês
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Why? Jul 28, 2025

Angie Garbarino wrote:

The one you can see now was taken in January 2024

I checked to see your photo as it doesn't display here? I wonder why? Contact support, maybe.


 
Samuel Murray
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Holanda
Local time: 04:02
Membro (2006)
Inglês para Africânder
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@Mario, @Denis Jul 28, 2025

I suspect most people don't have good photos of themselves and just pick a photo that makes them look normal, even if it's 10 years old. I recently had a professional photographer take some "nice" photos of me, but I look horrible in all of them. What I should do, perhaps, is take a picture with a grin, and then ask AI to replace my natural-looking yellow teeth with a sparkling white American smile.

Mario Chávez wrote:
2nd hint: stop letting your teenage kid write up these poll questions, will you?

This is actually a useful, relevant poll question. It is something that one often wonders about.

Denis Fesik wrote:
I had to visit a photo studio lately because I had to change my internal passport on reaching the age of 45. Maybe one day that picture will adorn (or disfigure) my profile page. Or maybe it won't...

I actually rather liked most of my most recent passport photos, but since they're not delivered to me as digital files, I can't get a good scan of them.

[Edited at 2025-07-28 10:54 GMT]


 
Novian Cahyadi (X)
Novian Cahyadi (X)  Identity Verified

Local time: 09:02
1882 Jul 29, 2025

1882. I asked an Ottoman Bey to take it for me.

 


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