Well, many people may think so too, but there are some who consider these methods very useful. Putting Freud to one side, do you think that some avatars reflect a poster's personality?
In some sense I do. Maye not the pic itself but maybe what it represents. For example whether its a funny one a cute one and off the wall one or a sexual one (although Frued would say that all the avatars are your sexual repressed fantaises about your mother)