It's great to see so many of you joining the Answers community and posting questions. One thing that makes Answers more fun is to have an avatar to represent you, instead of the not-terribly-exciting shadow head.

Avatars are great fun: you can make them as real as possible to reflect your life: or you can go crazy and try all the things you can't get away with in the real world.

You can get started right from the Answers home page. Just select "My Profile", which will take you to your profile. Then select "Edit my Info" and you will see a link to "Get my Yahoo! Avatar now!" There's a face, hairstyle, outfit, costume and background for your every whim, and you can change as often as you like.

So whether you're a mermaid trapped in the body of an accountant, or an Elvis impersonator on the moon, we've got your alter ego ready to go.

You can share your avatar with everyone on Yahoo!Xtra Answers, as well as other Yahoo!Xtra services, such as Messenger. Not only that, you can also download your avatar onto your mobile phone, send it to your friends as a postcard or export it to your blog.

Yahoo! Avatars are absolutely free, and in constant evolution: every Tuesday you can find new cool items for your avatar to try on. So the only unanswered question we can think of now is ... what are you waiting for?

Yahoo!Xtra Answers Team