Customizing Messenger Access

Viewing Settings Controlling Access Editing the Friends List Setting Other Options

Editing Your Child’s Friends List

By choosing the Restrict Yahoo! Messenger communication to friends list only option for your child’s instant messaging access, you assume control of your child’s friends list. You’re the only person who can add new contacts or remove inappropriate ones. Your child can’t modify her friends list without your permission.

Tip: Your child’s Messenger access must be set to Restrict Yahoo! Messenger communication to friends list only before you can edit her friends list. (Remind me how.)

 

Here’s How

  1. Go to the Parental Controls settings page for the family member whose friends list you want to edit.

  2. Click the Edit Friends List link under the Messenger gauge.

    Click the Edit Friends List link under the Messenger gauge.Enlarge

    The Friends List page for your child displays.

  3. To add a contact to the friends list, enter the person’s Member ID or Yahoo! ID, then click the Add Friend button.

    Enter the person's Member ID or Yahoo! ID, then click the Add Friend button.Enlarge

    You can only add people with valid Member IDs or Yahoo! IDs to a friends list.

  4. To delete a contact from the friends list, select the check box in front of that person’s entry, then click the Delete button.

    Select the check box in front of a person's entry, then click the Delete button.

    You can select and delete multiple contacts at one time.

 

What’s Next

You can return to your child’s friends list whenever you need to add or remove contacts. You can also add contacts by responding to permission slips that you child sends requesting additional Messenger access.

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Words to Know

  • Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email, instant message, or text message.
  • Friends list: a list of friends, family, and others who also use Yahoo! Messenger; an older name for Messenger List.
  • Member ID: the name by which a person is known to the Yahoo! network.
  • Permission slip: a message that Parental Controls sends to a parent on behalf of a child who is requesting Internet access beyond his current restrictions.
  • Yahoo! ID: the name by which a person is known to all Yahoo! networks.