because they don't have a nice picture of themselves...  

(I guess they are ugly  ;))

No this is not the reason

They are criminals?

Maybe they are real chickens.  Perhaps the international organisations have realised that chickens are more productive employees than a lot of career public servants, since you at least get an egg out of them every day.

Photos clearly matter. My original photo was me in fancy dress from my 40th birthday party, but on the weekend someoone pointed out that it looks nothing like me.

I guess when we meet up with groups for the first time, the photo is the only indication of who we are meeting. There's nothing worse that agreeing to meet someone at a certain place and time, and then hang around looking expectantly trying to spot the other people who are also hanging around expectantly!

My photo has been updated!

You're right.  I once had a really awkward evening with a group of large chickens because of this.

Did you get plucked?

To get to the other side...

Yes.  And since I was dressed as an egg, I now know which came first.

Yeah, I've never understood people who post really old pictures of themselves in a vain bid to try to pass themselves off as a lot younger - especially when it's obvious as they're standing next to a sign saying 'Welcome to Czechoslovakia'.

No, I'm perfectly happy with the photo taken of myself last week!  

Let me guess... according to your haircut and the large light blue denim shirt, I'd say 1988? Am I close? 

I just had another look and saw on the calandar behind me it says Feb 1991 so 22.5 years old! Or in other words, the average time passed for people's profile pics on Glocals.  

As for what I was wearing Izzie, to put it very mildly, I've never been on the cutting edge of fashion and this was Surrey so three years behind the times wasn't bad for me.

I think we should actually have a competition as to who has the most ridiculously out-of-date photo on their profile (nice try but baby pics not included! ).

We're talking about the sort of photos that when the poster complains that they were waiting outside in the rain at an event and no one spoke to them, it would proabably be because they looked like the mother or father of that person they claimed to be in that picture!!!!! 

How about that? Try to date it without using carbon-14 

Whenever it was, you haven't changed! (Wish I could say the same for myself!)

You're too kind, that photo is 20 years old, I was 18 

I wish I could source a photo of me when I was 18 and thought it was really cool to dye half my hair black... ;-)

Quoting my French litterature College teacher:

I used to be young and beautiful... now I'm just and.

One of the benefits of keeping my hair closely cropped is that it makes it harder to detect the receding hairline and the gray hairs. I think I've looked the same way for about 15 years - clearly not an adventurous sort of person.

Federal Chicken Protection Program???

Hi, 

what that guy was trying to say was:

 I think you are so beautiful that I am scary to show my feelings. And thos is because I am pretending to be cool and let you know that, even being beautiful I will be not so easy as you imagine.. glocals translation services. 

What that guy was trying to say was:

 I think you are so beautiful that I am scary to show my feelings. And this is because I am pretending to be cool and let you know that, even being beautiful I will be not so easy as you imagine.. Glocals translation services