Why can't we set profile pictures?

I think I've figured out how to load photos correctly on here.
Anyway, if it works, hi, MSFers, I'm Rachel!
Anyone else mind sharing?

I seem to recall that there have been discussions in the past about employees signing up as mystery shoppers just to tell when their store will get shopped. If they also visit this forum I would hate to have my face as their next dartboard....lol

(Plus I don't want to break my camera)

Here's me.

I actually took this myself (I really did!) on my 40th birthday. Which was two years ago, come September 9th.

I didn't want the traditional photo-in-the-mirror look, and it took several attempts before I got this one at a good angle and whatnot!

But that really is me. But I'm not telling my real name. I'm just Stormy.



All that hair? I got from Mom's side. I got that face from Dad's side.

And no, I'm not naked. I'm just wearing a sleeveless dress.

And when I MS, I *never* wear my hair like that.

And even though it's quite likely that I do, in actuality, have a halo; that's just a reflection on the wall of the lamp that's behind my big fat head.

Katie (on left), Me (on right)

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@ BBird, if this is really a pic of you, why would you want to out yourself as a MS'er? Anyone can access this forum; it is not private at all. You have to register if you want to actually post something but anyone, including MSC's clients and their clients' employees can access this forum if they want to.

And then there is the creep factor. Do you really want the Internet trolls and pervs having access to your photo?

Shop2Live, I'd actually thought of that as a possible reason why there's no profile pictures on this forum. It hadn't even crossed my mind that employees would come here.

The creep factor never crossed my mind, though.

As an open internet forum, ANYone who has an internet connection (and computers with internet access are available free at public libraries all over the country, so trust me when I say ANYONE) has access to this forum. When you register, you select your own screen name and you are not required to "prove" who you are - you could be a mystery shopper, a mystery shopping company president, a scheduler, an editor, a representative from a client company, an employee of a client company, a spammer, a troll, a curious person who has nothing to do with mystery shopping, or a creep or scammer intent on ....... who knows what? So anyone can read here and anyone can post here.

If I looked like Bbird, I'd post my pic too. People can see me on Facebook, they can Google me, see me in news archives, and I'm sure more places than I can name. I'm not too worried about people finding out my full name, in fact, I've posted enough info if anyone wanted to go to all the trouble to put it together, they could find it out. I've given it to one, maybe two of you for a FB friend request. I don't really care who knows what my first and last name is and if they find more info on me. I'm not too worried about identity theft in this manner. As a police detective, I specialized in economic crimes and I know what it takes to be a victim of ID theft, so that doesn't worry me. If one or two employees of businesses who were shopped ever found their way here and saw my pic, what are the chances I'd be in the same state, let alone town AND that I'd shop their business? :shrug:

The only reason I didn't follow up with my photo is 'cause I'm ugly.

I personally wouldn't post my face here. Too many MSC's on this forum and clients too, I'm sure.

I am keeping under cover.

Boo!

Yeah, now I'm having second thoughts.

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I have often wondered how many store employees or managers sign up as mystery shoppers to spy or see what is going on. It is so easy to sign up at the MS companies and start getting emails about shops. I would hesitate to post my picture on here due to those reasons.

I don't want the company logo to appear on the hard hat or fluorescent safety vest.

I was going to post an incognito photo, but I realized I don't know how. I run on windows 7. Directions please?

You put [ img ] (all together) copy & paste photo then [ /img] (all together)

thanks

BBird0701 is a stunner.

I felt the same way about Storm Cloud, when I realized she had no nose.

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Yes, I agree. Not to mention Stormcloud and I have identical hair.
Stormcloud, do hairdressers ALWAYS comment on how thick your hair is?

Ha!

And, I haven't been to a hairdresser in hmmm... 20 or so years. It just grows, and when I want it shorter, Dad cuts it. Sometimes it takes him a couple of tries to get it even, so it ends up a bit shorter than I intended. Ha! But I don't cut it that often ~ every several years is all. And it's not styled or anything, that's just the way it is.

When I was 19 or 20, I had it permed. Before that, it was just straight with little natural wave or anything. Now, even though I'll be 42 next week, it's *still* somewhat curly if I don't blow-dry it after washing. I guess that was one hell of a "permanent"! Ha!

And that was one of the last times I was at a real hairdresser, but yes, they did always comment on how it was difficult to even make/keep a part, it was so thick. One in particular would go on and on about it.

And, Mom's really was the same way. She kept a short style, so she did visit the hairdresser now and then, and they'd always comment the same about hers. Plus, with her, with all the natural wavy-ness she had, they'd comment that it was just amazing, as most women had to pay to get their short 'do to look like that, and it still always didn't work.

Anyway, mine isn't as thick/dense as it used to be, for some reason. That photo was taken just two years ago, and it's the same now, so obviously it's still pretty 'big'... but it was even thicker before my early 30's, when it started 'shedding' a lot for a period of time. I think from some horrible stress I'd been though before that. And from going through a long phase where I always wore it pulled up/back in the exact same way, maybe, too. And it just never went back to how it had been before. :/

Coarseness runs in Mom's side too. Including our hair. But mine isn't as coarse as it used to be, either. It used to be so coarse I could do one of those ponytails where you don't pull it all the way through the second or third wrap and have a little left over... but I could get the left over part to stand straight up in a fan. It won't do that anymore. Heh.

I don't need to post a picture...just look for Sir Roger Moore.