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Sending Your Contact Details

You can maintain your own contact details and share them with your contacts.

Notes: After you add your details to Messenger, your name is added to your Yahoo! Contacts and to your Messenger List.

You can’t share contact details with contacts outside the Yahoo! network, such as your Windows Live™ Messenger contacts, Facebook friends, and Pingbox™ visitors.

 

Here’s How

  1. If you haven’t already, add your details to your address book by selecting My Contact Details from the Messenger menu, and then completing the information in the Contact Details window.

    Add information to the Contact Details window.

    Tip: The Contact Details window opens automatically when you begin step 2 if you haven’t already added your contact details.

  2. Open the Send My Contact Details window in one of the following ways:

    • If you want to send details to one or more contacts, select Send My Contact Details from the Actions menu in the Messenger window.

      In the Send My Contact Details window, select one or more contacts, then click the Next button.

      Select contacts, then click the Next button.

      Tips:

      Shift-click to select a range of contacts. Ctrl-click to select random contacts.

      If you select a group in your Messenger List, all of the contacts in that group (except Windows Live™ Messenger contacts) will be selected in the Send My Contact Details window.

      You can send your details to a contact who isn’t on your Messenger List by typing his or her Yahoo! ID in the Other Contact tab. When you do this, you can only send to this contact—Messenger ignores any contacts you selected in the My Contacts tab.

    • If you want to send details to a contact with whom you’re currently instant messaging, select Send My Contact Details from the Actions menu in the conversation window

  3. In the send details window, select the information you want to send to your contact.

    Select details to send.

    Tip: To edit your details, click the Edit My Contact Details button. This opens the Contact Details window where you can update your information, When you close the window, Messenger returns you to the Send My Contact Details window.

  4. Click the Finish button.

    Messenger sends your details to the selected contacts. Each contact can accept or decline your details.

 

What’s Next

When you send a request to a friend to add his or her name to your Messenger List, you have the option of sending your contact details as well. For more information, see the Adding Contacts to Your Messenger List tutorial.

 

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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.
  • Group: one or more contacts that you organize together under one unique name, similar to an email list. By default, Yahoo! Messenger adds contacts to the "Friends" group included in the application.
  • 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.
  • Yahoo! ID: the name by which a person is known to all Yahoo! networks.
  • Windows Live™ Messenger: Microsoft® Windows’ free instant messaging application.