A picture is worth a thousand words, right? It’s why we use emoticons and avatars in our social media endeavors. These graphical representations help us define aspects of our communication intent that might have been lost, or at the very least saves us from writing a ton of text that it might take to clarify our attitude, meaning, tone, etc..

And I really hate typing

So things like Second Life that have the highest form of graphical representation are increasing in popularity, but there is a lot of middle ground to cover. That’s where Meez fits in the picture. Meez is sort of a more evolved, shared source avatar. They allow you to build and animate a representation of yourself and host that representation to be used across multiple social-networking sites. Here is a link to a press release from a few days ago that talks a bit about where they are going with this business, and below is a best attempt to create my Meez, although it is severely misleading. I’m not really a golfer but it was a close as I could get to the digital me… till they upgrade with the father-of-two, comic/computer nerd skins (I don’t think I’m the target demographic).