Adding Contacts to Your Messenger List
| Overview | A Safe Environment | Importing Contacts | Using the Add to Messenger List Window | Adding From Your Address Book | Adding From an Instant Message |
Overview
You can use Yahoo! Messenger to communicate with anyone who uses Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live™ Messenger if you know the person’s Yahoo! ID or Windows Live™ ID. To take full advantage of Yahoo! Messenger—send instant messages, make calls, play games—add contacts to your Messenger List. Once you’ve added a contact’s details, you no longer need to remember his or her ID or phone number.
Notes:
You can also chat with your Facebook friends if you link
your Yahoo! account with your Facebook account. The Chatting With Facebook Friends in Yahoo! Messenger video tutorial shows you
how.
If you have a personal Web page, you can add a Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox™ and
visitors to your page can chat with you in Messenger. To learn more,
take a look at the Chatting With Visitors to Your Personal Web Page tutorial.
You can’t make calls to or play games with contacts outside
of the Yahoo! network, such as your Windows Live™ Messenger contacts, Facebook
friends, and Pingbox visitors.
You can add contacts to your Messenger List in any of the following ways:
- Import one or more contacts from your Yahoo! Contacts and other email and address book applications.
- Use the Add to Messenger List window.
- Add a contact from your address book.
- Add a contact from an instant message when the sender isn’t on your Messenger List.
You can even add contacts your friends send to you from their Messenger Lists. To learn more, take a look at the Sharing Messenger Lists tutorial.
What’s Next
To maintain a safe environment, you must request permission to add someone to your list just as he or she must request your permission to add your name to their list. The next task provides more detail on this reciprocal process.
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.
- Pingbox: an embedded box on a Web page where visitors to the page can send you instant messages and which lists visitors on your Messenger List.
- Windows Live™ Messenger: Microsoft® Windows’ free instant messaging application.
- Yahoo! ID: the name by which a person is known to all Yahoo! networks.