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Sharing Photos With Yahoo! Messenger

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Inviting a Contact to Share Photos

You can share up to 300 photos while instant messaging your contact. Both you and your contact can contribute to the photos you share. Before sharing photos, you (or your contact) must invite the other to share.

Tip: You can’t share files with contacts outside the Yahoo! network, such as your Windows Live™ Messenger contacts and Pingbox™ visitors.

 

Here’s How

  1. Near the top of the conversation window, click the Photos button.

    Click the Photos button to begin sharing photos.

    A message tells you that you’ve invited your contact to share photos.

    Your invitation to share photos.

    If your contact accepts your invitation, your conversation window expands to show the photos panel on the right.

    The photos panel opens on the right side of your conversation window.Enlarge

    You’re now ready to share photos.

 

What’s Next

Your contact’s conversation window also expands to show the photos panel.

 

Help Topics

 
 

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.
  • Conversation: an exchange of instant messages between you and a contact.
  • 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.