Avatars are    1    that you use to represent yourself online. You can choose an avatar from    2    ready-made images, or create your own images. Although avatars haven’t been around for long, they are widely used.

Avatars let you express yourself and give you room for    3    . People usually make their avatars look better than they do in real life. They also    4    things like different hairstyles—which says a lot about what they want to look like. But the use of avatars has also caused a few    5    . Some users worry that they are spending too much time in virtual worlds that they are becoming afraid of    6    people in the real world. The use of several avatars can also be    7    , as people can use avatars to cheat others online. However, many people see avatars    8     They look forward to a time when their avatar will act like a real person and travel around bigger, more exciting virtual worlds.