how do i get a avatar?

Click this link to get to the avatar screen. http://avatars.yahoo.com/ Then look up to the top right and click Preferences to choose Male or Female. Then look at Appearance, Apparel, Extras, Background and Branded. Each category has sub categories and numbered pages to look through. After each choice you make that you want to keep, click Save Changes in the avatar pane, orange bar. Then return to My Activity, click Edit My Preferences. Under the new avatar click Use my Yahoo avatar, scroll to and click Submit. If it doesn't show right away, give it some time, Yahoo has been having problems lately.

If you have your profile set to private, your avatar won't show on answers.

You have to have the link to your yahoo pulse profile not hidden, you can unhide it here http://pulse.yahoo.com/ "

1st one for a pic, second for an avatar. Click on view my profile. Double click on your picture or avatar where it says change your picture.Box opens with options to upload a picture. Upload the picture from your computer, select it and you are done.

Go to edit my preferences at the top right of your home page. You will see a grey smiley marked get my avatar now. Click that and you can create your avatar on the page that opens.

Click "My Activity" at top of page

Select "Edit My Preferences"

Click "Update photo or avatar"

Follow instructions to select your photo/avatar

Click "Submit" on bottom of original page when done

To make a carton avatar:

http://avatar.yahoo.com/

Make sure your pulse profile is not hidden.

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