Using IMVironments
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What Is an IMVironment?
An IMVironment (IMV) is a themed environment that you can choose to show in the conversation area of your conversation window while instant messaging a contact. The contact sees the same IMV and has the option of turning it off or selecting a different IMV to share with you. Each time you instant message this contact, the same IMV displays in your conversation window until you change it or turn it off.
Many IMVs are animated, such as Fishtank, which includes swimming fish, and Falling Hearts, which includes hearts floating down from above. Your instant messages display over the top of these IMVs.
Several IMVs are interactive, such as Doodle, which lets you and your contact draw on the same canvas.
Notes:
IMVironments work only on PCs.
IMVironments aren’t available when you converse with contacts
outside the Yahoo! network, such as your Windows Live™ Messenger contacts and your Pingbox™ visitors.
What’s Next
To use an IMVironment, your PC must have the following:
- Microsoft Windows 98/2000/Me/XP
- Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.01 or higher
- Macromedia Flash Player 6.0 or higher
- 50k or broadband Internet connection
- Yahoo! Messenger installed
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.
- Instant messaging: the ability to exchange messages in real time with other people over the Internet.
- 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.