I hate to disagree with you on this Andy. Indeed this is what Facebook does, but I'm actually quite pleased with how EasySocial currently handles this. The point of the current cropping feature is that it's meant to crop down the square image to a space that maximizes a face. The full image however displays everything in great details. Often times when folks crop down to the face, the image actually becomes lower resolution and actually makes it not look as good when viewing in the popbox. I can understand however that what your mentioning could be what one might expect. Another down side is that it forces the scene to be a square image which crops out part of the scene (an issue that I was very annoyed with Facebook recently). Because that method forces it to be a square, visually it's not as good to display a square instead of a 4:3 image or even better a 16:9 ratio.

Now because I can understand your point of view on this, I propose a few things:

1. A admin avatar option that allows the image to be cropped either by purely the small square image (current method) or to crop all the image sizes to be square. This would be a fair compromise.

2. A built in crop system for photos! (not just avatars) I know the stacked team have their hands full which is why such a proposal would probably have to wait. For sure the community would love it.

OK understood. I can use EasySocial's flexibility to add a note on that avatar field so my users understand that.

All good. Just wanted to check it wasn't an issue. One of my users was just surprised when the activity stream entry saying he'd uploaded a new avatar actually showed a totally different part of the overall image to the one he'd selected by cropping!

No problem Andy, thanks for understanding