Working With Contact Information
| Managing a Contact’s Details | Requesting a Contact’s Details | Sending Your Contact Details | Viewing a Contact’s Profile | Deleting a Contact |
Maintaining a Contact’s Details
Yahoo! Contacts is like any address book. It’s where you keep information about your friends, family, business associates, and anyone else you care to add. At Yahoo!, these people are referred to as contacts, and the information as their contact details. In Yahoo! Messenger, your Contact List is a list of all of the contacts from your address book, so, you can easily maintain contact details within Messenger. When you add a new person to your Contact List, you are also adding that person to your Yahoo! address book.
Note: Facebook friends and Pingbox™ visitors are the exception. These are not part of your address book; they’re your online friends that you see if you’ve linked your Yahoo! account to your Facebook account or they’re visitors to a personal Web page where you’ve added a Pingbox. For more information, take a look at the Chatting With Facebook Friends in Yahoo! Messenger video tutorial and the Chatting With Visitors to Your Personal Web Page tutorial.
To take full advantage of Yahoo! Messenger and allow for easy communication (instant messaging, making calls, sending SMS text messages, and more), keep contact details current.
Here’s How
To view a contact’s details, right click the name in your Contact List, then select Contact Details from the menu.
The Contact Details window opens.
Update information in any of the tabs, then click the Save & Close button.
What’s Next
You can update some contact information, such as phone numbers and email addresses, through smart tags found in instant messages. To learn more, see the Chatting Through Instant Messages video tutorial.
To quickly populate a contact’s details, request the information directly from the contact. When the contact sends them, you can let Messenger do the work of updating the information.
Words to Know
- 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.