We've done our best to make Mingles incredibly easy to use. If you're not sure about how something works, please scan through this Help Page to see if your question has already been answered here.

If you can't find an answer to your question, and still need more help, please contact us directly. Thanks!

Mingles is built for mingling. You can use Mingles to find a date, meet someone for romance or friendship, find people with similar interests, build your friendship network, chat over your web cam, send winks and emails, read and post in the forums, publish photos, organize clubs and groups, post a blog, and much more! It's a dating-site, social network, blogging-community, people-tagger, and chat site. Most importantly, it's what YOU want it to be.

Some of the differences between Mingles and other sites you may be familiar with are:

Use the icons on the profile pages (to the right of the member's name) to contact other members. Hovering over each icon will display a small popup note explaining what each icon does when you click on it.

You can make changes at any time to your profile from the My Profile page. Use this page to describe yourself as well as the type of person you would like to meet. We then use what you've entered here to generate your My Matches page, which is where you can quickly find the members that you're likely to be most compatible with. Your profile page will also have a dedicated web address that you can give out to others. It will simply be http://www.mingles.com/your_name_here, where you would replace your_name_here with your Mingles username. Mingles makes it very easy to create a blog by giving you blogging tools right on your profile page. To get started, click the 'post to my blog' link that appears on the top left of every page after you've logged in (in the My Membership box). Give your post a title, write what's on your mind, decide if you want to allow other members to comment on your post, and then that's it you're done! Your blog will also have a dedicated web address that you can give out. It will be http://www.mingles.com/your_name_here/blog, where you would replace your_name_here with your Mingles username. You can upload an unlimited number of photos on the My Photos page. Your main profile photo should be a close-up photo that shows your face. The other photos on your My Photos page can be anything you want, but should be real photos of you, which is what other people are interested in seeing. All photos must be approved before they become visible to other members. Remember, no nudity! You can record a video message on the Create A Video page. You can attach up to 60 seconds of video to your profile right from your webcam. Videos must be approved by us before they will be visible to other members. You can search for other members in several different ways. You can use the Quick Browse Search Box (on the left of each page) to search a specific location. Once you get a list of results you can drill all the way down to the city level. You can also type a search query into the Search Box at the top of every page. This box lets you search for member names, tags, and group names. Remember too that the My Matches page will show you people you're most compatible with, based upon what you entered in your profile. Tag yourself with words or phrases that describe your personality. You can have as many tags as you want. By tagging yourself, other members can find you when they use search for specific tags. Any time you see a tag (on someone's profile, for example, or by searching for one specifically in the top-of-page Search Box), just click it! You will be taken to the Tag Browser page, where you can see all the members who have that tag. You can then drill down by adding more tags and creating interesting groups of members that share the same interests. You can also use the Tag Clouds to see the most popular, recent, or just random tags on Mingles. You can use the Group Clouds to see the most popular, recent, or just random groups. You can also find groups by viewing profiles and seeing what groups other members are part of. You can join an existing group from that group's home page. Anyone can join public groups. If it is a private group, you can request membership. Private groups have a group administrator that is responsible for approving membership requests. Each group also has a forum and chat room where you must be a group member to participate. You can also create your own group as well. To add someone to your profile as your friend, you must send them a Friend Invitation. Simply click on the Invitation icon on their profile page, and your request will be sent. If they accept your invitation, you will each be added to each other's profile pages as a new friend. Then you can leave 'shout-outs', or comments, directly on each other's profile. You can save profiles on your My Favorites page. Click the 'Add To My Favorites' icon on the profile you want to save, and it will be added to your favorites. We build your My Matches page based upon what you've entered in your profile. This page shows you other members of Mingles that you're compatible with, based upon both your profile and theirs. If you want to see different types of members on this page, update the part of your profile where you indicate the type of person you're looking for. Members who are online and available to chat with will have a 'Chat Now' icon on their profile page. Clicking on this icon will bring up the Mingles Instant Messenger window, where you will be able to IM back and forth with each other. If you have a webcam, you will be able to video chat with them as well! Mingles has Flash-based video/audio/text chat. There are five main rooms, plus the lobby. Each group you belong to will also have a chat room available just for members of that group. If you block someone in the chat rooms they will automatically be added to your site-wide block list as well. The forums are discussions between members about anything and everything. You can choose to read the discussions, join in the discussions, or even start a new discussion! By reading the forums, you will get to know your fellow members in a relaxed and friendly environment. If you're interested in what someone has to say, you can instantly bring up that member's profile. Read and manage your messages on the My Mailbox page. All email, winks, friend requests, group invitations, etc. from other members will arrive here. You can archive or delete message you've read. We will also send a notification to your regular email address when you receive new on-site message. If you want to stop these notifications, indicate so on the Email Preferences page. You can block a member by clicking on the 'Block' icon on their profile. Blocking a member will prevent them from being able to contact you. You can unblock a member from the My Blocks page. If you've forgotten your username and/or password, you can ask us to send it to you. Meeting someone online requires the same common sense safety precautions that you would take if you met a stranger in any other setting: a bar, a class, at work, etc. Remember, you do not have to ever reveal your real name or email address to any other member until you feel you are absolutely ready. We do not screen our members, and cannot make any claims as to the accuracy of what members say about themselves. Unfortunately the same is true in the real world. So have fun, get out and mingle, and be safe!