I'm soliciting ideas for a sniglet that means: "A realtor or other professional who uses a publicity photo taken of themselves more than a decade younger."
There should also be a modified version of the noun to apply to people doing the same in online dating communities.
Welcome to the forum Jeff. Great idea. I think I recall newspaper columnist Ann Landers being accused of doing that. I'll start this off by considering that such a representation is variously called an "avatar" or "icon" or "bio pic" or "head shot" or simply "photo." So ...
avatar => salveatar
icon => liecon (or maybe decepticon)
bio pic => slyo pic (or maybe myo-pic)
head shot => misled shot
photo => bloato
None of these are particularly clever, but I'm sure you'll get some better suggestions now that we've got the ball rolling. There's a lot of brain power here. If anyone can come up with your requested sniglet, we can.
[Edit: I just learned that "icon" comes from the Greek "eikÅn" = "likeness," or "image." Even though the meaning has changed since computers started using GUIs, that makes me lean toward "decepticon" as my favorite so far.]
We have a particularly egregious example of this with two plumbing companies here in Phoenix. On the one hand, there's Jan Ashford, who until a few years ago used a picture of herself that was probably taken back in the 1960s (and checking her website I now see there's a picture of some other woman altogether). On the other, there's George Brazil, whose iconic picture not only isn't George himself, but combines the head of one man with the body of another.
I got an avatar refused on the American Mensa site because it wasn't current (I don't have my picture taken very often, and just happened to have a college-age pic on my hard drive when they asked for a pic). Or maybe it was because I was wearing sunglasses.
The avatar I use here and on most other online fora isn't me at all. I found it online when I needed a picture to represent the phrase "out of the mouths of babes".
George's looks like an innocent representation of a workman, until you see the name tag on his shirt. It's the name tag that makes it him who is not him.
Is it not easier nowadays to "shop" your photo, even if you're 100 years old, than to bother with a real young photo? You can innocently blame the computer too.
Dan Pawlak responded to my Google+ call for Sniglets with the winner in my mind:
stalefacer
noun
a person who uses an out of date photo to represent himself
verb, stalefacing
to use an out of date photo to represent a person's current image