Avatar Site

An Avatar Site is a Online Web Site in which you create a representaion of yourself or an alter ego to chat and play games with other users. An avatar site is a good idea for people who like designing. They usually envolve not only designing an avatar but various other things such houses, cars, fish tanks, pets, etc

Avatars can also refer to icons used for Instant Messaging, PMing, E-mailing or on Forum sites.

Point of these sites
The main point of these sites are to express yourself through a mini representation or alter ego. By playing games, chatting, completing quests (can be anything depending on the site.) etc you earn some sort of points that you can use to buy items for your Avatar, house, etc. Usually, for the site to make money, they either have it set up that it would be easier to buy(with real money) some sort of cash or points that are worth more than the usual points that can be earned on the site to buy these items. Or they have it that you HAVE to buy these points in order to get special items. Sometimes in order to get these special items, you must buy V.I.P membership.

Example: Gaia online gives you "gold" to use for buying items. If you want to earn gold faster or buy special items you'd buy "Cash Cards". Gaia cash is used to buy items from the cash shop and sell on the market place for tons of gold.

These Avatar Sites are usually made for chatting with other members.

Downs to Avatar Sites
Though avatar sites are very fun, some users always have to ruin things. In the sites I described above, there are a lot of users too lazy to earn or pay for these points so instead they troll the site for users that appear to have a large amount of these points (like missexysondra16 shown above) and beg for donations. It gets tough and almost makes you want to dress poor, but you shouldn't let that get to you )

Since Avatar sites are also usually chat sites as well, you may encounter the usual creep. But, mostly people are nice. Unless you're at site for pedophiles then they may all just be creeps.