Working With Contact Information
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Viewing a Contact’s Profile
Many of your Yahoo! contacts have profiles on Yahoo! that you can view to learn more about your friends. You might find out about a friend’s favorite hobbies or music. You can access profiles through Yahoo! Messenger.
Tip: You can’t review profiles for contacts outside the Yahoo! network, such as your Windows Live™ Messenger contacts and your Pingbox™ visitors.
Here’s How
In the Messenger window, click the contact’s display image (or just place the cursor over it in compact view) to view the contact card, then click View Profile.
The contact’s profile opens in a Web browser.
What’s Next
As a Yahoo! user, you also have a profile. If you haven’t already done so, personalize it so others can learn more about you. For more information, take a look at the Getting Started With Your Profile on Yahoo! tutorial
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Windows Live™ Messenger: Microsoft® Windows’ free instant messaging application.