Setting Your Messenger Status
| Setting Your Availability | Writing a Status Message | Linking to a Web Page | Adding an Emoticon | Displaying a Different Status Message | Deleting a Status Message |
Setting Your Availability
Hey, are you there? Let your friends know if you’re ready to instant message or have a voice conversation.
Here’s How
In your Messenger window, click your name, then select an option from the menu.
Your availability appears near your name in your friends’ Messenger lists. If you have Pingboxes™, visitors will see that you are either Available, Busy, or Offline.
Tip: If you select Invisible, Messenger italicizes all of the names on your list as a way to remind you that all of your friends think you’re unavailable.
What’s Next
Add some personality by adding a message to your availability, adding a Web link, and showing some attitude with an emoticon.
Words to Know
- 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.