How do I get a picture icon of myself when I comment?

Someone asked me:

I notice that when some people comment on your blog (and other blogs) there is a picture icon of them, instead of some generic little icon. How do I get a picture icon of myself when I comment?

Easy!

That picture icon is called a “gravatar”: a Globally Recognized Avatar. If you go to gravatar.com, you can register yourself, upload a picture, and associate it with your email address(es) that you use.

Then when you comment on a site that supports gravatars (which seems to be most these days), it will automatically load that picture of you when you comment.

This is my current gravatar:

Until next time...
Erik

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