You'll have to deactivate your current account and create a new one.

-- !!!CAVEAT EMPTOR!!! --
IF YOU DO DECIDE TO GO THIS ROUTE, KEEP IN MIND THAT YOU MAY NOT USE THE SAME EMAIL ADDRESS FOR YOUR NEW ACCOUNT! YOU WILL ALSO HAVE TO PROVIDE A COMPLETELY NEW EMAIL ADDRESS IN ORDER TO CREATE YOUR NEW ACCOUNT!

Mingle2 only allows one account for any given email address. If you use your current email, create your account and goof up on your user name, you will have to make an entirely new email address as well as your new account. NO USER SHALL HAVE MORE THAN ONE ACCOUNT PER EMAIL ADDRESS. Be original, think twice and name yourself only once so you don't later have to generate a new account.

Thank you mzrosie. I didn't get drunk, but I did have some good music on my computer. Enjoyed my day all the way to its end.

Thank you, Peggy122. I hope so.

If I'm understanding you correctly, you're wanting to know if it's possible to create a new or different user name after deleting a previous one while having the same email address for both, right?

Unfortunately, you can't do that. You can only have ONE (1) user account and thus only ONE (1) user name on Mingle2 for a given email address. Now I suppose you can create a whole new email account somewhere else and then make your new profile here on Mingle, but you absolutely cannot have two or more profiles on Mingle registered to the same email address. It wouldn't be fair and it could get you flagged as a potential spammer. Only one user profile can be made per email address.

Hopefully this helps.

...Just thought I'd chime in here since the subject is one I deal with as well.

I think the problem people are having with ads is primarily the animated Flash ads. These things always have a nasty habit of eating up ALL your bandwidth and slowing your browser and computer, in some cases causing crashing and problems with the proper functioning of the web browser. I know how maddening this can be as I have experienced it all too often myself. I've been on websites where you literally could not do anything at all because of all the Flash and video ads (Cox Communications', Best Buy's and AT&T's ads being among the worst as these are frequently 1080p HD videos and you'd have several attempting to load at once). Thus AdBlock Plus was born to deal specifically with these and other annoyances. My least favorite are the stupid popup ads. You go to click on some link and BOING! up pops an advertising window that, depending on the site, either takes up the whole view or, even better, LOADS A WHOLE NEW INSTANCE OF YOUR WEB BROWSER! And often clicking the first window triggers a whole barrage of new popups to load, again overwhelming your computer and annoying you to the point of sheer utter violence.

Now recently, I guess starting a couple weeks ago, I got the "Ad Blocker Enabled" warnings from Mingle2 as well. I agree with the site's upper management department needing some kind of income to keep the free version alive, otherwise they would just have the paid-only Mingle Plus and no free Mingle2. I'm okay with adverts on the site if and only if the Mingle managers used non-animated picture or "banner" ads that don't use Flash Player or video streams to operate. I have turned off AdBlock Plus on Mingle ONLY, so that I can continue using the site and not be hassled by the "Ad Blocker Enabled" message every time I log in. But AdBlock Plus is still enabled for everything else, protecting me from slow-loading video and Flash ads anywhere else I go. Also, ad blocking plugins and software give some protection from cookies and other types of online tracking, potentially protecting you from sites collecting your browsing data and using it to try to sell you stuff through more ads. Also, I'm using Mozilla's Firefox browser which has a good deal of ad blocking and tracking protection features built into the program. For those of you who might be concerned, use Firefox. Otherwise, just turn off your ad blocker when using Mingle. I did and I haven't seen even one ad since. Could be an error or some unknown compatibility issue, but I haven't seen any ads even after disabling my AdBlock Plus browser plugin....

...Though my saying this is, by no means, intended to convey my permission to anyone to start cranking out the ads and popups. You have been warned!

Well, today is my birthday. I am officially 36 years old today. To anyone interested, please wish me a very happy birthday and send prayers of good fortune and luck for the future and thank you in advance.

Yeah, watch out for the scammers. There are too damn many of those.

I might be wrong, but I don't think Mingle2 has support for any special "alert" sounds like Facebook has. If you go to your main profile page (your "account" page), there's a link for you to change your account's settings for things like messaging, regional restrictions and forums, but there isn't anything for sounds. The only thing like that is for changing the color of text, but that's about it. And color changing for typed text I think only works in the Forums. I don't think it works for private messages. I haven't used that feature, so I'm not fully positive. Hope that helps.

You're welcome, brother. It's good to know that the United States has such great neighbors to the north.

I don't care so long as it meets the following requirements...

1. It's safe and I won't be killed by any rogue nations, terrorists or incurable diseases,

2. It has AT LEAST one beautiful woman of quality for me to make a family with, and...

3. There is a job for me to work and make a reasonable income in order to survive.

If there is a place like that in this vast universe, THAT'S where I would move to if money wasn't an object.

Bisexual isn't my game but, yeah, you're fine. Nice photos and your description is sound. Only issue, you're married. Really? Married and yet you're on Mingle2? Won't that tick your "other" off and make him/her suspect you of cheating? I generally don't approve of "Married"s going on dating sites unless you're going through divorce, in which you ought to put either "Separated" or "Divorced". I'm also not a fan of single moms as I generally view them as "used", but that's a whole different issue that I'm not going into here.

Can't find anything else wrong with your profile. You'll do just fine. Enjoy your stay.

...And their friends are getting married and they themselves aren't. And the friends are getting nice jobs and they themselves are not. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you're trying to say here. You're trying to tell me I've got this "FOMO" hocus-pocus, mumbo-jumbo. Well let me tell you something...

The kids on Facebook, they are suffering from simple envy and the whole "cat poo" mentality of "Hey! Sarah Jane's doing that and I have to do that, too!". Plain as day, I kid not.

Now for the grown-ups, the reasons vary depending on who it is that you are referring to. I won't bore everyone with a running list here so I'll give my case. I have these same feelings with one critical exception: IT ISN'T ENVY, IT HAPPENS TO BE THE DIRECTION MY OWN LIFE HAS TAKEN! Not a disease my friend but brutal cold reality. I really want a job. I really want to fall in "love" and get "married". And yes, I do feel like I'm being left behind, like I will be the last to do these things, assuming I'll ever be able to do them at all.

Call it "keeping up with the Jones's" or whatever else you think works best. But, it don't change reality, pure and simple.

My situation isn't merely a "fear of missing out", I ACTUALLY AM MISSING OUT!!

I think "spirituality" is a very generalized term and can mean anything to anyone. Now, my "version" is somewhat similar to yours, although I try to blend in a little scientific theory to even things up a bit. I think of myself as an "Agnostic" and not really religious. But I share somewhat similar views to yours. I don't know whether it can really be called a "consciousness", though there are quite a few examples of an "interconnectedness" amongst all things.

Am I making any sense?

Fine by me, I've got no problem with links to helpful resources. Thanks for the approval. I like to help others whenever possible. I'll do more as they come.

Question, if I may...Where does this leave people like me who MUST rely on such things as SSI, Medicaid, etc. for income because of job loss, disability, whatever? What's gonna become of us? I don't mean to come off impertinent, ladies and gentlemen, but damn it I WANT A JOB! WHY DO I HAVE TO SETTLE FOR SOCIALISM?! I DON'T WANT MORE GOVERNMENT DECIDING FOR ME WHETHER OR NOT I'LL EVER WORK AND IF I DO, WHAT JOBS I WILL OR WILL NOT WORK!! I'M SICK OF LIVING AT HOME WITH MY MOM AND DAD (GOD BLESS THEM, PLEASE)! I'M SICK OF THERE NOT BEING ANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR ME!! I'M B*TCHIN' MAD THAT THE ONLY WAY IS TO GO INTO $100,000 OR MORE INTO DEBT TO GO TO COLLEGE, LEARN SKILLS THAT I'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO USE DUE TO A LACK OF JOBS IN THE CHOSEN FIELD AND BE FORCED TO EITHER DO MENIAL LABOR OR MOVE BACK IN WITH MOM AND DAD!!!!

My mom is sick with cancer, and although she'll likely get through it, a time WILL come when she'll die and I won't have her support any more!

I wish someone would listen to me and HELP ME OUT HERE!!! I'm tired of yelling so much! I'm going hoarse and driving my blood pressure up!

Welcome aboard, Mark. Don't feel so bad. I'm still single. I tried another site and had zero luck. My experiences here have been a little better in terms of getting people to talk, but I still can't find a good woman who would actually want me enough to stick around. I doubt one even exists for me, but I'm trying anyway because I'm unemployed and I've literally got nothing better to do with my time. I can't travel, that costs money I don't have. It's just terrible. I haven't even dated anyone before and I wish there were an Asian lady out there who would actually give me the time of day, so to speak. And, I'm 36 years old. Ain't that a rip! Anyway, I wish you luck. I don't know any Canadians, so I'm glad to see a Canadian here. Enjoy your stay.

Thank you Soufiehere. How did I do?

Sir, I'm a fellow user and I can give you a bit of assistance. Mingle2 allows you to send new messages up to a certain point within a given amount of time. I don't recall the exact limits off the top of my head, but they are intended to minimize the incidence of spamming. Scammers will often try to blanket message many users at once and Mingle2 sets limits on how many messages you can send within a set amount of time. If you exceed those limits, you risk being ID'ed as a scammer who's sending out spam. Check out the "Help" topic threads for more details on this issue. Enjoy your stay here.

Some psytrance I found on Soundcloud.

I wonder, TxsGal, what you will say if I told you that I'm unemployed. Would you still date me or toss me in the trash like "other" women seem to do all the time? How willing are you to live or be friends with a man who can't buy you anything or look after his own needs? Would you allow yourself to give this guy a chance? Would you do everything in your power to help him out (within reason, of course)? Would his level of "happiness" be worth anything to you? For some men, happiness is a job. Happiness can also be having the love of his life stay with him whether or not he has a job. Too often I've concluded women to be hollow when they don't reply to my messages. I assume they don't want me due to my lack of a job or degrees in advanced fields. I might be wrong, but this is my point of view. I can't believe anyone will want me because they don't care about love. They only care about money. Nobody in my position gets a chance. Nobody.

This is my dilemma and I would sorely love to get an answer for this. If you cannot give me an answer, I'll assume that to indicate the "true" you when faced with this. I'll assume that you are one of those who says one thing but isn't really committed to it. Your thoughts? Thank you.