@mrjarbenne – that is an option but ideally it should be dynamic and change as the user gets older. As nickrita said, users forget to actively change it.
@nickrita – I have it set up like you do at the moment.
It seems weird that a social networking plug in would not have something as rudimentary as this.
Cleared the cache as suggested and no change. Changed browser and no change. I’m using the default theme for buddypress 1.2, I don’t think that’s a child theme, is it? Where in functions.php do I add that line?