What do you call the little pictures for each user on a website?

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Avatar 15
Icon 4
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  • mountain-man82
    9 years ago

    Ive heard them be called avatars, but I call them profile pictures.

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  • charli.m
    9 years ago

    Profile picture?

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    • anti-hero
      9 years ago

      This. Avatars are animations of the people. Icons are symbols. To my mind anyway.

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  • peaceandlovebro
    9 years ago

    That's an avatar. I used to do CSS coding for websites such as forums (similar to this site) and those images were called avatars. Unless you're referring to a profile of someone in which case, it would be a profile picture like the other person wrote.

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  • Shrunk
    9 years ago

    Icon if it's small and nondescript/abstract, avatar if it represents the user, on something like this site i would say profile pic

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