I have been here for about nine months. Since I was born and bred in Sweden, I look on the community forums for profiles from the Nordic countries. It seems that there are very few profiles from Europe, let alone the Nordic countries, that participate. Of course, the forums may not be representative of the Mingle2 population as a whole.

Yes, there are a lot of fake accounts; be alert.

A quick internet search says that there's no place called Alabama in the state of Alabama.

It went to deactivation

Furthermore, she's deactivated.

You're absolutely right. It further affirms my conviction that this feature is worse than useless.

I think the bottom line is that the popularity meter is a totally useless feature.

I think the time of the people who are supposed to maintain this site would be much more useful to the users if they responded to users' problems instead of introducing silly features. Of course, this is not the maintainers' problem; it's the problem of the people setting directions. (During my 50+ years in the workforce, I have encountered two (2) good managers; apparently, good managers are as scarce as hens' teeth.)

My initial impression is that the popularity meter is useless. It is primarily based on the number of people you have liked. If the meter were to be useful, it would be based on how many liked you, rather than how many you liked.

Franziska is deactivated after a very brief time on Mingle.

Thanks for teaching me a new word.

Like all glittering generalities, there's little truth in this one.

To amplify: don't mention your new-found wealth to anybody or you'll have people beating down your door in order to get a slice of the pie.

For a while, I saw plenty of blurred photos in profiles (I only have one photo in my profile).

The definition of organic varies widely, depending on who you talk to. Chemists have one definition (roughly, the chemistry of carbon compounds), grocers have another (foods that have been grown with less pesticides), and so on and so forth. Cyanide fits the chemist's definition but not the grocer's.

I was talking about the blurred photos in the profiles, not about those in recent activity.

While I agree that the service isn't good, for me the principle has become moot -- I have already paid for the rest of my life.

Most of my grocery costs are "organic" berries; those are not cheap. Whether I eat better than you is a matter of opinion.

When I joined in January, they offered a lifetime membership for around $90 -- about $10 more than for 6 months. With my statistically expected lifetime, that works out to between $8 and $10 per year. Economically, this expense is totally insignificant. For example, my groceries run around $70 a week, which is around $3600 a year -- at least 360 times more than the annual expense for Mingle.

Admittedly, the problems that they cause by unnecessary site changes and ill-advised policy changes are not good. IMO, the biggest problem is that they don't listen to their users and, when they do listen, they take forever to make the user-desired changes.

To be fair, they did recently make a good change: they stopped blurring profile photos.

Unfortunately, at times, you fail.

I tried looking up myself. It works but only if you follow the suggestion by Google to complete your search criteria.

I believe that when you see a green dot, that profile is online.

Ashley Denny's account is deactivated.

The subject title smells of racism. Ideally, the preference should not be based on race, but on personality.

According to CheckPeople, that number is a landline and lists to a 58-year-old woman in Connecticut.