How the site works

Becoming a member

Activate your account

Setting up your account

Set your preferences

• Receive notifications - Decide if you want to receive email notifications (recommended). When a member contacts you or replies to a message we will send you an email notification. If you turn this feature off you will need to login to see if you have any new messages.
• Album default PIN - You can create public albums where everyone can see your photos. You can also create private albums which are only viewable to people you provide a special PIN number to. You can set a default PIN for sharing your private albums here. You can change the PIN at anytime.
• Country - set the country you live in.
• Search range - how far from your location do you want to search for people. To meet with someone you typically will want to limit your search area to find the people who are close to you. 50 miles is a typical search range.
• Zip code - the search range above uses the zip code you enter here as the starting point for determining the distance to search. Your home zip code is used by default, since typically you will want to find and connect with people who live near you.
• Bonus tip! When you travel to another area enter the zip code of your destination and you can find people close to where you will be.

Set up your profile

• Profile photo - Upload a photo of yourself to use as your profile photo. This must be a photo, it cannot be a drawing, cartoon, or avatar, and it must be of you. Choose your photo carefully since your photo has a big impact on the number of contacts you will receive.
• Username - The site has created a default username for you. You can use this name or create one of your own. If you change your username from the default one provided the site will check to make sure that username is not in use before applying it to your account.
• Gender - select your gender.
• About you - Tell everyone a little about yourself. Be as descriptive as you want to be. Also be sure to enter an opening tag line. Your tag line is often shown directly below your profile photo, so remember to make it something catchy!

Add some interests

• Choose from the alphabetical list of Interests that other members have already added. When you click on an Interest it is added to your member profile.
• If you have interests that you don't see in the list click the Add button. The Add button allows you to add interests to your profile. When you add interests to your profile those interests also become available for other members to choose and add to their own profile.
• If you see an interest listed that you don't think belongs on this site click the flag button so we can take a look at it.