With the advent of telecommuting and folks across multiple geographic locaitons, sometimes the completed project gets executed with only the name being know. Often a face cannot (or is not) tagged to the name due to logistics issues.
But does it really matter ! Can we have the same level of comfort and rapport by knowing the name of the person we are talking/working with. Is that all ? What caused the new chat site to start allowing photo mug-shots to have a view of the person. How did the evolution happen from simple-looking chat sites to newer enhanced sites that incorporate photo, voice, movies in addition to Chat.
Yes - a "face" to tag to the Name is a great advantage. Often during the working enviroment, if one knows the other person (either met or has seen the other personally or via sharing of photos), the discussion goes on a more comfort level and is more effective and efficient. So, when we say "What's in a name ?" - it is really that and much more beyond that, in this new world of communication.
Sites like Orkut (and other equivalent sites) are gaining popularity as we know who we are chatting/orkutting with. Its not the old days of chatting with a "user-name", with no view of the person at the other end (of course very few users really used webcams) !
Well, there are caveats in the newer name-face recognization with fake profiles coming up, but then Rome was not build in One Day. We take a small step at a time :-)
Offcourse, on a lighter vein - the face can also lead to more confusion. An example, could be the driving License (attached photo) of a popular movie star as shown in one of the newer movies.
Guess who !
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