Mingles is a free online dating service. It lets people chat, view photos, make friends from all over the globe, create groups, and have lots of fun. Mingles started in 1997, and was online by September 1998. The company is situated in Vincennes, United States. Mingles does not charge any fees; it’s totally a free service.
Mingles comes with a host of facilities, which makes it very popular among people, especially the youth. Members need to be above 18 years of age. That is mandatory. People can open an account with their profile, and then they can upload photos, and also view other profiles. People can browse and search for friends by tags or groups. There are tags like popular tags, recent tags, random tags or they can even add their own tags. There are many popular tags to look for, such as music, funny, outdoors, family, yoga, laughter, dancing, movies, travel, sports, romance, children, beach, and many more. The
Mingles site has many options, where the members can create their own tags, groups, add friends, add favorites, add matches, and also they will have their own mailbox. After creating their profiles, members can edit their profiles anytime or can also remove them.
Members can also post their views on different topics, through the forum section, and can also view others replies. Contacting other members is very simple on
Mingles. Searching for friends on Mingle is easy, and does not take much time. There is an option called as Quick Browse, where members can find suitable friends, according to their choice. The members who wish to contact other members can use the icons found on the right of the member’s names to contact them. Once they accept friendship, both the members can be friends. Members can upload unlimited photos on their My Photos page. Approval from Mingles is required before any photos are uploaded. Other than photos, members can also add videos. Members can attach videos of up to 60 seconds to their profile. This also requires
Mingle’s approval. Joining the chat rooms is very easy.
There a video, audio and text chat available. Other than general chat groups, members can also have a chat room available only for that particular group. Members have the option to block other people, if they don’t want to chat with them. The blocked people will also be automatically be added to the site-wide block list of the member.
Mingles follows safety precautions also. The members must understand that Mingles does not screen their members. The information submitted by other members may not be real, and
Mingles does not make any claims of what members say about themselves. Members can join an existing or create a group of their own. There is an option called Group Clouds, where the most popular, random and just added groups are found. To join a group, members have to visit the homepage of that group. Public groups are open to all, anyone can join them. But if it is a private group, then a request mail has to be sent to the group administrator, and on his approval, members can join this group.
