Inviting Friends to Use Messenger
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Sending a Personalized Invitation
When you use Yahoo! Messenger’s Add Contact feature, you can specify an email address that Messenger uses to send an email to your friend inviting him or her to join the Yahoo! Messenger community. You can add a personal message to the email...not required, but a nice touch.
Here’s How
In your Messenger window, click the add contact button.
The Add to Messenger List window opens.
Type one or more email addresses in the box (ones that aren’t set up for use with Messenger, such as a gmail address), then click the Next button.
On the next page, add a personal message if you like, change the language in which to send the invitation, then click the Next button.
Click the Finish button to complete the invitation process.
Your friend or friends receive an email invitation to join you using Messenger.
When your friends accept your invitation, Messenger adds their IDs to your Messenger List (and yours to theirs) and opens a conversation window with each so you can start instant messaging.
What’s Next
The Import feature and the Add Contact feature provide ways to easily invite people to join you in using Messenger. Invite all your friends and connect the way you want, when you want.
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.
- Messenger List: the main part of the Contact List in Yahoo! Messenger. The Messenger List includes the contacts with whom you communicate most often.
- Smart tag: information, such as a phone number or email address, found in an instant message and underscored for your use. Clicking a smart tag allows you to act on the information, such as sending a text message to a mobile phone number, sending an email to an email address, or adding the information to your address book.