Your avatar is whatever appearance you put out online. It can be your videogame stand in, your face on IM or message boards, your Myspace profile, or even the little emoticon you put on the bottom of an email.
The word comes from a concept in Hinduism where gods manifested themselves on Earth but that’s not important here. Look around the web, there are free mods and skins everywhere.
A mod is just anything which MODifies something else and it can apply to everything from avatars to making your computer run faster or look cooler. Skins are just that, skins which go over your avatar to change their appearance. Any of the big games will have tons of these which people have made up and put out there for others to try on. Most important of all, have fun with these things. Be yourself, be someone completely different, be a girl, be a guy, be a monster, see how it virtually feels to be someone else.
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