The Fresh Review for Christian Mingle
Christian Mingle works as a way of showing you religious singles living near you or in your country. You apply filters to the singles before you have even opened the homepage for the first time, so the singles you view already match the sort of thing you are looking for. The more filters you apply, the fewer singles you are likely to see on your homepage. But do not fret! You can change these filters whenever you want to, so you aren’t stuck with the ones you applied previously.
When you click on a profile, you can view their main picture, their interests and when they were last online. A lovely detail of Christian Mingle is that the interests on someone profile will be bold if you share them. Whilst this is only a minor detail, it is lovely to know what you and another single have in common before you have even started a conversation. As well as this, if you are feeling a little shy, and you aren’t sure how to break the ice, then Christian Mingle also has things called “likes” and “smiles”. If you like someone or send a smile, this opens a chat and they get notified that you have done this. Hopefully, this breaks the ice enough so that they start the conversation but if not then believe in yourself and start light with a “hello!”.
To get signed up to Christian Mingle you are going to need to set aside around 5 to 10 minutes to do the whole thing and in the grand scheme of dating sites, this is very moderate leaning towards rather quick. There are a lot of details that go into making your profile and disclosing the sort of single you are looking for, but this helps in the long run!
Initially, you are asked if you would like to sign up through Facebook or if you would like to do it through email. The Facebook route would cut a lot of corners, but for this purpose, we have gone with the email so you can get a full picture of what to expect. As usual, you give your email, create a password, give your name, gender, birthday and zip code. After that, you are free to add a photo of yourself and then you have a choice of a display name or simply sticking with your own name. This minor feature is nice as you are not forced to have one or the other!
After this, you go into the usual details until you have built your romantic profile. These include things such a height, marital status, occupation and level of education. However, there are some extra questions that are clearly exclusive to this sort of dating site as you are also asked, religion (then you are given a list of variations to the Christian faith), church attendance and whether you have kids and if you want kids. Then you write a little summary of yourself and choose some interests (things such as sport and fitness, activities, arts and entertainment, travel, music and what you like to eat and drink). These are the interests that are later compared to other members on the website. When signing up you are also asked if you would like advanced preferences on what singles you would like to be shown. This goes into the same sort of details you have just put on your profile.
