Add Contacts on Badoo
To find out and meet online friends from a particular location, Badoo is a great online platform nowadays. As a Badoo user, you need to add contacts to find out the right person for you. You can add your contacts through different email services such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Windows Live, MSN, etc. by permitting the access of Badoo application. It’s an easy process to do.
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Adding Contacts Manually
- Go to Badoo. Open a new browser tab and type http://www.badoo.com on the address bar. Hit Enter on your keyboard, and you will be directed to the home page of Badoo.
- Sign in. Click the “Sign in” button at the top-right of the page. Enter your email address and password registered with Badoo in the boxes provided then click the “Sign me in” button.
- If you’re not yet a member of Badoo, you can create an account on the home page by entering the necessary information on the fields provided there. Once you’re done, click the green “Sign up” button. Or if you want, you can sign up using your Facebook account; just click the blue “Sign in with Facebook” button.
- Find contacts of new friends. After signing into your account, you have to click on the “People nearby” button at the top-left side of your home page. You will see a list of new friends on Badoo there, depending upon the setting of your home location.
- Narrow your contact search result. You can find the list of new friends outside of your home location by using your location-based key search words. Locate the heading “I’m here to make friends with guys & girls in…” at the top of the page. The title sentence will show different colors, such as blue, green, and red. There are two tabs, “Change” and “Show:All,” next to that colored title sentence.
- Click on the “Change” tab to find more specific searching options. You can change your purpose, preferences of gender, age, places, and interests you are looking for. In search menu, you will see different options such as “I’m here to”, “With”, “Where”, and “Interested in”.
- In the box below the option “Where,” type the name of the location you want to browse to find new friends.
- For the other options (“I’m here to,” “With,” “Interested in”), you can check and uncheck the box or select a preferred option from the drop-down menu.
- Click on the green “Update result” button below the search menu when you are done.
- Customize your search results more. You can also find friends who are new or online now if you want. Click on the tab “Show:All” next to the “Change” tab.
- If you do not select any option there, the default option will be “All.” Badoo will show a list of new friends depending upon your searching preferences.
- Select the profile of listed friends. Click on the username of a profile you would like to add as a friend and access his or her profile.
- Find the button “Chat now” at the top-right corner of the user’s profile. Click on the “Chat now” button and a message box will appear in front of you.
- Send messages to add contacts. You have to send a welcome message to the user for the user to be added to your contact list automatically.
- There is a sidebar on the left of the message screen, including the list of users to whom you have sent a message. You will find your contact list in this message bar. If the user replies to your message, you can chat with him or her.
- Remember, you can only add up to 12 contacts in a day. However, there is a paid feature of Badoo to allow you add more 20 contacts in a day. You need 100 credits to activate this feature and it costs only $2.
- You cannot send messages to a user more than 2 times if the user does not reply to your message.
Adding Contacts from Your Existing Email Accounts
- Go to Badoo. Open a new browser tab and type http://www.badoo.com on the address bar. Hit Enter on your keyboard, and you will be directed to the home page of Badoo.
- Sign in. Click the “Sign in” button at the top-right of the page. Enter your email address and password registered with Badoo in the boxes provided then click the “Sign me in” button.
- Go to the import link. You can go there by clicking this link easily.
- Choose an email account to import contacts into Badoo. On the Import page, you will see different popular email accounts listed. Click on the email account you want to link and a pop-up window will appear. If you do not find out your email service in the given list, choose the option “Other.”
- Input your email account address and password in the pop-up.
- Click on the “Accept” accept to start importing contacts from your email account to the Badoo contact list.
- Select the contacts registered with Badoo. You will get some contacts who have registered accounts with Badoo. Mark those existing Badoo users and unmark all other contacts by clicking on them.
Adding Contacts from the Slideshow Profile Menu
- Go to Badoo. Open a new browser tab and type http://www.badoo.com on the address bar. Hit Enter on your keyboard, and you will be directed to the home page of Badoo.
- Sign in. Click the “Sign in” button at the top-right of the page. Enter your email address and password registered with Badoo in the boxes provided then click the “Sign me in” button.
- Select a user from the sliding list of new profiles. You will see many user profiles there; just select one that interests you.
- You also may find more users or contacts by clicking on the arrow on the right side of the slide menu.
- Access a user profile. Clicking on the user name and you will be directed to the user’s profile page.
- Send that user a message to add him or her. Click on the “Chat now” button and send a message to the user. The contact will be added to the recent contact list showing on the left of the message bar.
Warnings
- Unmark the “Automatic Top up” in case of registering for a paid feature to add more contacts in a day. This paid future will deduct money from your Mastercard if you select the option “Automatic Top up” at the time of purchasing the feature.
- Read carefully about each paid feature related to adding contacts before registering for it.
Tips
- Use a different folder to save your contacts and locate it easily when you need it.
- Write a friendly message to a user and briefly tell why you are interested to add the user to your contact.
- You cannot send messages to a contact more than two times if the contact doesn’t reply to you.
- If you want to save a contact for future chatting, you can add the user to your favorites list by clicking on the button “Add to Favorite” on the user’s profile.
- Move your recent contact list into a new folder to save all contacts permanently because Badoo will delete the recent contact list after 30 days.
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