How To Change Your Netflix Profile Picture
A reader wrote in, asking how to change his profile picture from the random Netflix image (it's not that easy to find).
To upload your own photo, click on the "Friends & Community" tab, and then on the "Profile" tab on the right side. You should see the following:
It could take up to 24 hours for you photo to change. Keep in mind that you should own the image (no stealing), keep the image PG-13 rated, etc. If not, you could get "flagged," according to the Netflix website:
Photos or images that you choose to post must be owned entirely by you and cannot contain the images of or owned by any third party, and cannot be infringing, vulgar, obscene, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. Failure to abide by these standards may result in your membership cancellation and other legal responses. Other community members may "flag" your image or any of your text, nickname or content. Netflix may, but is not obligated to, review the content and may delete or remove it at any time.
What image did you pick for your profile picture?
My Netflix Fan blog logo.
Posted by:Becky | March 03, 2008 at 11:23 PM
Peter Graves.
Posted by:Marty McKee | March 04, 2008 at 09:54 AM
I used my own homemade logo...
Posted by:prozac | March 04, 2008 at 11:03 AM
"...must be owned entirely by you and cannot contain the images of or owned by any third party..."
This obviously isn't enforced much, if at all. I picked one DVD and looked at the reviews and in the first page saw, Spongebob, Wonder Woman, and a Smallville logo as profile pictures.
Posted by:jimofoz | March 04, 2008 at 01:47 PM
BTW, mine is a picture of the bronze dragon on a pen holder my brother-in-law got me from Taiwan.
Posted by:jimofoz | March 04, 2008 at 01:51 PM
My own. It's hot.
Posted by:Plus | March 05, 2008 at 11:12 AM
I wonder if I "own" the Old English Crest for my family's surname that I use as my photo? I would assume such things are in the public domain by now since it was created in the 1600s. And it is unique - what looks like two drunken dogs, with tongues hanging out, on either side of a big battle shield, with "God save the King" in Latin as the logo. I haven't seen anyone else using family crests.
Posted by:CJ | March 05, 2008 at 01:47 PM
A family crest is like a trademark for your family and you have every right to use it for something like this. It is not copyrighted as it is protected by laws governing heraldry.
Posted by:Old Timer Too | March 05, 2008 at 08:28 PM
mine is me kissing my little japanese gheisha statue...
Posted by:croatoan | March 11, 2008 at 03:42 PM