How Do You Delete a MeetMe Account?

Open the settings menu in the MeetMe app, choose My Account, and tap Delete account. MeetMe asks you to confirm why you are leaving, shows the kinds of data that will go with the account, and then you select Delete Account. The last step happens in your email: MeetMe sends a message to the address on the account, and you click the Delete account button inside it. Yes, you can delete your own account, and no, you cannot pause it. MeetMe says deletion is permanent and it cannot reverse the decision.

Here is the path as MeetMe describes it:

1. Open the settings menu in the app.
2. Select My Account.
3. Tap Delete account.
4. Confirm the reason you are leaving.
5. Read the list of data that will be deleted, then select Delete Account.
6. Open the email MeetMe sends to the address on the account and click Delete account.

Until you click the button in that email, the job is not finished. A man who taps through the app screens and never opens his inbox has started a deletion, not completed one.

The confirmation goes to the address on the account, which may be an old one you stopped checking years ago. Before you begin, make sure you can still open that inbox. If the message does not arrive, look in spam first.

MeetMe says that if you have difficulty deleting, you can write to support@meetme.com. Use that route when the email never shows up or you cannot reach the address anymore, and give the support team the details they ask for rather than creating a second account to sort it out.

MeetMe says temporary deactivation is not supported. So the choice in front of you is to keep the account as it is or to remove it for good. Many apps let you hide yourself for a few weeks. This one does not.

That changes how you should decide. If what you want is a break, the honest options are to stop opening the app and let the account sit, or to delete it knowing you will be starting over if you come back. Neither one is wrong, but only the second cannot be undone.

A few small jobs are worth finishing first.

If you are talking with a woman you actually like, move the conversation off the app before you leave. A phone number or another messaging app keeps her reachable. a dating coach's advice on any app is to get to a call or a plan quickly instead of building a relationship inside the chat window, and this is a good reason to do it today instead of next week. Once the account is gone, so is the way to reach her.

Check your money too. MeetMe's terms say subscriptions bought through the Apple App Store or Google Play renew automatically unless you switch off auto-renew in that store. Treat the subscription as its own setting, and look at it yourself instead of assuming that closing the account stops the charge. If you hold unspent Credits, the virtual currency used for gifts, MeetMe's help center says to ask for a refund by contacting support@meetme.com with the date of purchase, the payment method and receipt, and the transaction ID. Do that before the account is gone, while you can still prove what you bought.

Most men who ask this have been on the app for a while and got little out of it. That deserves a fair look before you close the door.

a dating coach says to treat every app as a test and to count results. How many conversations did you start, how many got an answer, and how many turned into a plan? If the number is zero after a fair try with clear, recent photos in daylight and a first message about something specific on her page, the app may simply not suit you. MeetMe is a broad social network with dating in it, and a man who wants dates can spend his evenings better on an app where more women are there for the same reason.

If your results were thin everywhere, deleting one app will not fix that. The usual weak spots are the first photo and the first line, and those travel with you to the next app.

Pick one app that fits what you want, build a small set of good photos, and give it a steady stretch of daily effort. My own observation is that half an hour a day for ten days tends to beat five hours in one sitting, because consistency does more for you than bursts of effort.

If you would rather hand the whole thing to someone who does this for a living, a service can build and run your online dating for you, with hand-checked photos and messages written for you. Either way, close the old account on purpose, finish the email step, and put the effort somewhere it can pay.