Virtual Faces

So, on Friday Jocelyn and I had dinner with Nat and Pam (and very nice it was too, thanks!).
Nat came out with a classic quip:

"I have a terrible memory for faces.  It's always a surprise to me when you don't look like your MSN picture."

Which made me laugh - it's a reflection of our times, but also the geeky nature of a large part of my circle of friends that we spend more time communicating through MSN and Google Chat than IRL.

For the record, my current MSN pic looks like this:

Whereas my most recent passport photo looks like this:

I don't think they're all that different...