It’s a breeze to write a status message. Here’s how:

Click inside the menu below your name, where it says “share a status message…”. Type your message and press Enter on your keyboard. It’s that easy! You can also click the down-arrow to choose from other status messages you’ve written.

Your custom status message now appears next to your Yahoo! ID in other peoples’ Messenger lists.

Please note: Messenger remembers the last 5 custom status messages so you can quickly re-select them. Older custom status messages will be deleted as you create new ones.