This way when you set up textarea profile fields for say “Movies”, each line would be a searchable item and could help users find other like minded folks. As it is now, the entire textarea data is one link and the entire set is attempted as a search which will never garner hits.

[@modemlooper Moderator 14 years, 8 months ago]

This might help

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/