Do you imagine a 'face' for someone you text online where you've never seen their face?

Apulu_Imback

Personally, I do. If someone doesn't have their face picture or selfie or whatever, then I tend to imagine their face based on their personality. If they have a profile pic of some animated character or some celebrity then I tend to imagine that anime or celebrity faced person texting me, weird but that's how it works for me and I'm sure it's like that for many because it's psychology.

For example, when we had online classes due to lockdown, a girl from America who was going to shift to India soon joined our school. She is Indian though. She attended classes online before shifting here during offline classes. Her camera had some fault and it didn't work and the class teacher assigned me the job to introduce her to school and the teaching style and how stuff work here since education system is quite different here. We talked through texts and WhatsApp and I sometimes she would answer in the on-line class so I even heard her voice. Her voice is really soft so I imagined her having a baby face and having childish features. Also, her whatsapp profile pic had this anime so that anime pic also kind of influenced my imagination in some way. Well, she turned out how I expected but she was shorter than I imagined. I thought she was of my height or a bit short but she's of, I guess, 5'1 now? I don't know exactly. I thought that she must be tall because she lived in America all her life because girls are really tall there compared to Asia and lifestyle must be one factor but it was a stupid assumption from my side.

Do you imagine a 'face' for someone you text online where you've never seen their face?
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