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™ Messenger ID. To take full advantage of Yahoo! Messenger—send instant messages, make calls, play games—add people to your Messenger List where they are known as your contacts. Once a contact is on your Messenger List, you no longer need to remember his or her ID.
Tip: You can’t make calls to or play games with your Windows Live™ Messenger contacts. These features aren’t supported.
You can add contacts to your Messenger List in any of the following ways:
- Import one or more contacts from your Yahoo! Contacts and your Microsoft Outlook list of contacts.
- 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.
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 or instant message.
- Instant messaging: the ability to exchange messages in real time with other people over the Internet.
- Messenger List: a list of coworkers, friends, family, and associates who also use Messenger.
- Windows Live™ Messenger: Microsoft® Windows’ free instant messaging application.
- Yahoo! ID: the name by which a person is known to all Yahoo! networks.