[MariaG]

Just about everyone here is or was registered on CM at one time or the other. My subscription ends the last day of this month and I've told them that I do not want to renew. Two reasons, there's so little activity in my age group, but most of all, the deletion of their forums. To be sure, this forum wouldn't exist if they hadn't shut theirs down.

Just out of curiosity, when your subscription expires there, what will or have you done? Three choices, (1) pay and renew, (2) don't pay and revert to "free" status, or (3) delete your profile entirely. The second choice is kind of awkward, you're there but you're not. Your profile is active and you'll get "views", "likes" and messages, but you can't respond with messages until after ten days and only if they sent you a message first. Your objectives may be much different than mine, but I'm tending towards the third choice since any kind of activity there at my age could only be an annoyance. Up to now, all the "likes" I get are from scammers, most are good-looking, 40-50 years younger and thousands of miles away. And when I do a search, I come up with the same small group of women over and over again. And even the scammers are ignoring me lately.

Anyway, that's my choice, how about yours?

I'm in a similar boat.  My subscription expires on Oct 11th.  I was messaging with another member that I really missed the forums and that is how I found out about Catholic Hangout.  I don't have high hopes meeting someone online as a woman over 50, especially since I cannot relocate.  I think there is a fourth option of inactivating my profile so that if I don't renew now, but change my mind I don't have to fully rewrite the profile again.  I will also be hidden from others so there will be no likes, etc.  At this point I am thinking that this is my best option.