How do you get your profile picture, thumbnail photo, or avatar to appear globally when you make a comment on a blog? It’s really quite simple.

1. Go to Gravatar.com.

2. Sign up for a free account at Gravatar.

3. Upload a profile picture.

4. Add as many email accounts that you would like to be associated to that profile picture. Any time you make a comment with one of your email accounts listed on Gravatar, your profile picture will appear on the blog comments page.

Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums. A photo is a good idea as people relate more to a picture than a blank box next to your comment. If you want to stand out among the crowd of bloggers, a photo will do that for you.

If you are the shy type who guards your privacy like Kristen Stewart guards her rumored romance with Robert Pattinson from the paparazzi, you don’t need to buy a armored truck as your new form of transportation. Consider using a picture of a favorite vacation spot or a favorite hobby or even a colorful abstract.

Just one final word of advice. To the people who just can’t resist using pictures of their children as their profile picture, consider how it looks when you make a strongly worded comment with your child’s smiling face right next to all those f-bombs. Not too good. Be nice to your kids and leave them out of it. In fact, leave the f-bombs to Howard Stern.

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