I am not a big fan of using cartoons on my professional profiles, but you can always use cartoons to add some spice to your personal profiles on top social networking websites. DoppelMe is a very straight forward and cool tool to create your very own avatar and share it across your social networking profiles and websites. What’s fun about DroppelMe is the fact that it’s quite dynamic. So you can update your avatar’s look and have the changes take places in all your web properties.

The process is pretty simple. The service walks you through a wizard that lets you choose features and customize every aspect of your avatar. That includes the gender of your avatar, skin color, eye color, and other body parts.

Once you have customized every aspect of your avatar, you can grab the quick code to install your avatar on your website. You can also add your avatar to Facebook through DoppleMe’s Facebook application. Since you have your very own DoppleMe Key, you can make changes to your avatar without worrying about where you have pasted your code. The service does have some premium features. You can always gain coins by referring friends or buy them for cheap from DoppleMe bank. Either way, you can add some of those premium customizations to your avatar by spending a little amount of money.

If you are looking to create your very own avatar online without spending too much money or effort, DoppleMe is well worth a try.

urfooz: a cool service that lets you create your own online portable profile. You have a lot of options to choose from when designing your avatars. Once you are done, you can post your avatar to pop social media sites.

Face Your Manga: another avatar creation tool that lets you use your creativity to develop highly sophisticated avatars. You can then grab and share it on top social networking sites out there.

Avatar Creator: one killer iPhone app that lets you create your own avatar on your iPhone fast. It actually a decent number of customization options, which is pretty neat considering this is a mobile application.

DoppelMe: it’s not as sophisticated or let’s say colorful as the above services. But you’d be surprised what you can develop with this service. Great for creating simple avatars.

WeeWorld: a virtual community that mainly targets teenagers. Still, you can create your own avatar and use it on top chat services. There are plenty of customization features available through this service as well.

Snapatar: OK. Maybe you find the above services to be silly. You can always snap your picture and send it to Twitter with Snapatar. It certainly makes things a whole lot easier.

What service have you used to create your own avatar?