[yomismoaqui]

Maybe this will be benefitial to stop the overexposure of some young people on the internet. A bad thing that brings a good result, like the inverse of "the path to hell is paved with good intentions".

On the 90s we internet users tended to hide behind nicknames and posting photos of yourself was not the normal. Maybe we were more nerdy/introverted or scared about what could happen if people recognized us in the real life.

Then services like Facebook, MySpace, Fotolog attracted normal users and here we are now, the more you expose yourself on the net, the better.

[gertop]

Another explanation for the lack of faces online could be that most of us in the 90s simply didn't have an easy way of getting our photos online.

Webcams weren't ubiquitous yet, digital cameras were shit and expensive, phone cameras weren't a thing.

[yomismoaqui]

True for the images, but users not using real names when posting on forums was the usual.