Working With Yahoo! Updates
| What Is... | Viewing Your Friends’ Updates | Controlling the Updates You See | Viewing Your Own Updates | Controlling the Updates You Share |
Viewing Your Friends’ Updates
Yahoo! Updates is all about viewing what your friends are up to online. You can view Updates through Profiles, Mail, Messenger, and other places. This task shows you how to view Updates in Messenger.
Note: You won’t see Updates shared with connections only nor will you see Updates from a contact who used an alias when being added to your Messenger List. To see Updates from your connections, visit your profile on Yahoo! or Yahoo! Mail.
Here’s How
To view all Updates:
Click the Y! Updates tab.
All of your friend’s Updates appear, including your own (those about you seen by your friends). Your Updates have a blue background.
If you like, you can start an instant message conversation with someone from the Y! Updates tab by clicking the name or display image.
The conversation window opens and you can start instant messaging.
To view an individual’s Updates:
Click the Contacts tab to display your Contacts List.
Click the contact’s display image to open the contact card.
The person’s Updates display at the bottom of the card.
To see more Updates, click the bar at the bottom of the Updates area.
The area expands to show more Updates, and you can scroll to see all of the contact’s Updates.
What’s Next
You can control what Updates you receive and from whom.
Words to Know
- Alias: a unique name that identifies you to others when you don’t want to share your Yahoo! ID. You might, for example, prefer to use an alias in a chat room or on a message board.
- Connection: a person you spend significant time online with and with whom you want to share personal information. Connections have privileged access to each others’ profiles.
- Profile: a public web page associated with your Yahoo! ID where you can share personal information with others. You and each of your connections have a profile that others can view.