A member profile is a Web page that tells the rest of Talk City, and anyone else on the Web, a bit about you. You can include a little information or a lot--it's up to you. You can include a picture of yourself, some personal information, lists of your favorite things, photos, a blog, and more! Before entering information into your profile, be sure to consult our Safety Tips page. It can help you decide how much personal information is appropriate to share.

You can access your profile by clicking on the "My Profile" link found on many pages in Talk City. You can also launch your profile from the "My Profile" link found on your My Rooms page. Links to your profile will also appear in any chat room or message board you participate in.

When you are logged in to Talk City and viewing your profile, you'll see a "Manage Profile" tab at the top of the page. Click it to enter your Profile Control Center. All of the tools you need to customize your profile are in your Profile Control Center. Consult the help pages in the Control Center for detailed instructions.

Your profile can be viewed by anyone on the Web. We've included powerful tools to allow you to restrict access to certain parts of your profile if you wish. Complete information on this option is available in the help pages in the Profile Control Center.

Whenever somebody enters a chat room or posts a message in a message board, a link to that member's profile will appear. You can also browse through profiles or search them via the member directory.

Yes. Enter your search terms at the top of the member directory and check the "All Indexes" box to search for your terms anywhere in a member's profile, or use the "Targeted Search" drop down to restrict the search to a certain part of the profile. For example, if you wanted to find people who like pizza, you would enter "pizza" in the text field and select "Food Item" from the drop-down.

Yes. Go to the Advanced Search page. You can enter multiple search terms and restrict your search to those with a profile picture, males or females, members of a certain age, and/or those who use a certain type of messaging system (like AIM).

Yes, you can do that in the Profile Control Center.

Yes. When you participate in chat rooms and message boards, links to your profile appear.

There's a search option at the top of the member directory page. You can search through all of a member's profile information, or specific parts. For example, you could enter "Mark Twain" and select "Authors" from the drop-down menu.

If you're friendly with another Talk City member, you can ask that member to become friends with you. If the other member accepts, you can each display each other's picture on your profile. You can also grant your friends special access to part of your profile information.

Those icons indicate a member's presence in chat or their status with various messaging services. The Talk City icon indicates whether or not a member is online in a chat room. If a member has entered account information for messaging services, you may see this icon as well. For example, if you use AIM, you can enter your AIM account information and display your AIM status to other members.

Yes. You can hide the "Contact Information" module so that it doesn't appear on your profile.

Use of the guestbook function is limited to logged-in members who have been members of Talk City for at least 24 hours. You can set up your guestbook so that you can review comments before they become public and/or you can limit who can view your guestbook.

Yes, you'll receive an email notification.

Yes. All you need to do to create your blog is to log in to your Profile Control Center and create it.

Yes, every blog comes with photo albums. You can create as many as you wish.

Yes. You can move different sections to different parts of the page or eliminate them from the page completely. You can also limit access to certain parts of the page if you wish.

Click on the Talk City icon under "Contact Information" and enter your message. If the member you're trying to reach is online in chat, they'll get your message immediately. If they're offline, they'll read your message the next time they log into their Profile Control Center.

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