How to Limit Distractions with Your Availability
Ever leave your Yahoo! Messenger account signed in to find you receive an IM at the worst possible moment? Taking advantage of Yahoo! Messenger’s availability status feature lets your contacts know when you are open for an interruption on the computer or when you can’t be reached.
You can even use Yahoo! Messenger’s availability status to set your account to invisible, making it appear you have signed off when you want to continue a conversation with a contact without someone else know you are online.
To access the Yahoo! Messenger availability status panel, first click “Messenger” on the top Yahoo! toolbar, then select “My Availability.”
Choosing Available
Choose “Available” from the adjacent availability settings menu to let your contacts know you are available to receive IMs and audio/video chat requests on Yahoo! Messenger. You can also select this option by pressing Ctrl+Alt+A.
Setting Busy Message
Choose “Busy” from the adjacent availability settings menu when you are working on the computer, on the phone, in a meeting or otherwise cannot be interrupted. Users can also activate the “busy” status by pressing Ctrl+Alt+B.
Going Invisible on Yahoo! Messenger
Choose “Invisible” when you want to appear to be offline on Yahoo! Messenger. This option allows you to continue IM and audio/video chats with the users you wish to converse without appearing available to others. [Note: Members to whom you appear offline to can still send you IMs, which would regularly be saved in your offline messages. They will receive a message that you are offline and will receive their IM when you sign back in, despite having already received the message.
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