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Once you finish the registration you receive a verification email in your mail box and following verification you are ready to use your account and you will also receive an account confirmation email. For registration with mingles you must be 18 years of age or above.

Login & Customizing Profiles

Like many other dating sites you need to login by username and password. Once you have logged in, the website will ask for details like your personality, habits, lifestyle and type of relationship and the match you are looking.

From the account setting you can also changes your privacy features or customize your account e.g. you can also change your primary email, name, gender, state, city, postal code.

Users can hide or show his or her profile status. Users cannot create any rules to block unwanted member accessing your profile. If you want to block any profile you need to go to that specific profile and block it.

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From the account section you can see all the members whom you have blocked and you have the option to unlock those members also.

You can also enable or disable email alerts to your email address of any notifications from mingles.com such as friends requests, messages, advice, events parties, new members joining mingles etc.

If you have no further use for your account, you can remove your account or cancel the registration to the site.

Photo Profile Section

Like most other dating sites this website also has features to upload photos including primary/profile photos. While some sites have photos uploaded instantly, this one will require you to wait 24hours for approval of the photos.

You can attach an unlimited number of photos to your profile. You can add captions, as you desire, allow other members (or just your friends) to comment on them also.
Maximum size of each photos are 1mb and it needs to be in jpeg format.

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Browse & Search Features

Searching for your match is always a difficult task and some dating websites can get this right or fail altogether. Like most of the other dating sites this also has a quick and advanced search.

From using quick search you just need to enter what kind of a person you are and the kind of a person you are looking for including age criteria and life style you are looking for.

There is also an advanced search where you can search in greater detail or drill down from the previous search results. You can search by personality, habits, relationship status and lifestyle.

Messaging

Like most of the other dating sites there is also a messaging feature such as email, sending winks, IM and video chatting. Before sending emails your profile picture must be approval by the website administrator.

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One awkward feature of the site is that any communication following a search or a profile you like needs to be put on hold for 24 hours!

After the 24 hours had elapsed I was able to see the important parts of this section and fortunately, I was not disappointed. Both the audio and video chatting feature worked as expected.

Other Features

Very few website has the videos recording feature this site has and using its own internal webcam you can record clips up to 60 second and save it your video profile.

Once you made the recording it is sent again for approval to the website administrator. Facebook integration of the like feature was an added advantage. You can also mark any profile as ‘like’ this using the facebook feature. If you like to tag any profile, you can also do this like; funny, hot, cool, kooky, interesting, nice and unusual etc.

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This website like other similar dating sites has a forum board e.g. movies, dating advice, funny stuff, romance and love etc. Adding the facebook feature you can send the mingle friend request of your facebook friends.

Other features like blog, forum and groups seem to be accessible and working fine.
At the very bottom of the mingles.com you can see the contact us option where you can provide any feedback, technical queries, business developments etc.

Member Base

As mingles is a free dating site, this site appears to have a good member base but not sure about what the exact number could be Most of the members are from US, UK and Canada though the website has members from other parts of the world also. Majority of the profiles that I browsed appears to be in the age group 30’s to 40’s.

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