Is LJ helping me get better at face-recognition?

I didn't exactly start out very good at face-recognition. By 18, recognizing actors in various roles was still a challenge for me.

I find that when I know someone only slightly, I can capture a still of their face when I think of their name, and get a clip of their voice. When it's someone I know deeply, and see often, their face becomes a blur. If I've only met someone once, I'll likely have to be re-introduced until I can recognize them, unless they have some outstanding feature or way I can pin them down in my mind.

And then there are the people whose faces you know, but whose names never stick. I know "that guy" from the plasma place -- smartass, employee, black, about 30, shaved head. He and I give each other a hard time. I've been going there for over a year, interacting with him on a regular basis, and he's still just "that guy".

With LJ, I don't recognize names at first. I recognize icons. The latest "Huh? Who?" moment was with

alphafenris; the name showing up in my e-mail meant nothing to me. However, the cute confused-dragon icon let me know "Ahh, one of 'Song's people."

Maybe, after I get used to associating names with images, I'll be able to do it faster in face-to-face situations.

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However, the cute confused-dragon icon

Aw, I thought the Growf! dragon was adorable my own self. Which is why I stole him . . . well, that and the fact that the original was 200 pixels along one axis and therefore required no real math skills to resize for LJ use. Besides, cute 'n confused is usually what I'm going for. ;)

"Ahh, one of 'Song's people."
Yay! I'm somebody's people (ooo, 'Song's people, even better)! Now I just need to make sure I'm not voted off the island.

Hee! Yes. You are of my tribe.

There needs to be a secret handshake.

Hee! Yes. You are of my tribe.
Aw. Now I'm feelin' all warm and mushy. I hope it's not solely because it's really warm where I am and that I just sat down in something mushy.

There needs to be a secret handshake.
*snerk* Okay, first, you need to think bigger. If we have a "tribe" we need a secret casino. Then we can make mad mad piles of secret money so that we can shower a certain tribal priestess with gallons upon gallons of secret chai (with some secret maple sugar candy on the side). After that . . . we can work on the whole "world domination" thing.

Control the maple sugar supply!

"In this country, you gotta make the maple sugar candy first. Then when you get the maple sugar candy, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."

-Al Pacino . . . sorta.

Right. Get on that, then, will you? :)

Hold on there, smiley . . . I've just re-interpreted what you said.

the cute confused-dragon icon let me know "Ahh, one of 'Song's people."

Are you sayin' we're all dumb 'n pretty (aw, she thinks I'm cute)? Wait a minute. I don't understand what I just said. I think I'll just go look in the the mirror s'more.

;P

Nope! You're a

shadesong_nexus person. Whee!

And just when I was going to make a post about that effect, you go and say it first.

So, yeah. There's a small number of people on my list who I couldn't recognise after they'd changed their user icon set; had to go check their userinfo and go, "ohhh."

Or a few people who I managed to mix up with one another, since I'd met them at roughly the same time... even if they have nothing in common in terms of username or icon. I'm not sure what's up with that, but I just realised that I've been gooshing you together in my head with

polyrhythm all this time. o_o;;yikes.

And when I have people assigned similar colors on my friends page (which was more significant on the old layout), I mush them together. I have

elynne and

elorie munged together a bit.

Oh, the person with the cool stick ninja vs. dragon thingy! Excellent!

Is LJ helping me get better at face-recognition?

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