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May 28, 2003 at 5:10 pm #96273arwen10024Participant
I tried it too. Everyone who was visible on my friends list were invisible on my address book, despite several refresh.
May 28, 2003 at 6:42 pm #96298Celtic_coventinaMemberArwen and Netti, If they have their invisible option on…you will not see them.
But this works if you want to see if someone is online that is not on your buddy list. This is the only way I know that you can see automatically if someone is online that has either not been added to your list… or maybe for some reason does not want to be on your buddy list.
What I was saying is even if they do not have an online indicator showing on their profile page that would tell you they are online…you can still see in your address book that they are on.
If they choose to be invisable…they are just that…invisible. I do not know any way around that. Thank Goodness, because I am using that option right now!
Sorry if I was not clear.
May 28, 2003 at 7:01 pm #96297Celtic_coventinaMemberArwen, not sure if I followed you..
>> Everyone who was visible on my friends list were invisible on my address book, despite several refresh.<<
If they are not visible in the address book but are vivible on your buddy list…They will not show up in your address book unless you have their screen name and a yahoo email address entered into their email portion of the address book listing.
You have to fill in their Screen name, nick name, and yahoo address when setting up your address book listing for this to work.
I have one friend who is on my buddy list and in my address book his screenname is one of his aliases and he has no yahoo email for that name.
But when I entered his (alais) [email protected] in my address book it still shows me if he is online or not (even though that screenname does not really have it’s own email addy with yahoo…(Yahoo uses his screenname to locate him…not the actual email addy…but it has to be a yahoo email entered in the address book or Yahoo will not even check for that screen name online.)
If you do all that you should see them online in your address book.
( Unless they choose to be invisible. I never meant to give the impression you would see the invisable people )
Wow, I am confusing myself! I hope thats clear…
May 28, 2003 at 8:50 pm #96286NettiMemberCeltic, I think you were very clear. I think I was just closing my eyes while I read your post. I misread what you wrote. I thought you were talking about seeing if someone was online regardless if they log in as invisible. But as I go back and re-read, I see we were just talking about Adding people !!!!
Thanks for the clarification.
May 28, 2003 at 8:56 pm #96279OreoMemberTaken out of context all of this talk about seeing invisible people would think we’ve gone ’round the bend! Anyway, I hope that we use our super powers of seeing invisible people for good and not evil!
May 28, 2003 at 10:21 pm #96296Celtic_coventinaMemberAgreed Oreo…I found this board because I was looking for ways to protect myself from Hackers and booters..
( One of my newer friends on Yahoo is a self proclaimed hacker..I really do like the guy but I really do not want him knowing my personal info…I am probably nutty for even talking to him…but I liked him as a friend before I knew he was into that. He has promised to not ever “hack me out.”) Even so I wanted to make sure if someone wanted to hack me I would make it as hard as possible for them to do so…I have learned alot here.
This is a great board!! But when I am online as invisible…I want to be invisible. I hope there is no way to see the invisible ones….
May 28, 2003 at 10:39 pm #96278OreoMemberI’ve been in rooms with Hackers and “gotten to know them” and they say they won’t hack me…. but when I find out they are hackers I tend to not trust them anymore and then what’s the use of having someone as a friend?? You are wise to make things as difficult as you can for them…. and I think the only way to stop people from seeing us invisible ones….is to re-educate people about respecting other’s right to privacy. If we all respected each other’s privacy… there would be no stalkers stalking innocent people…. and no need to then kick these stalkers’ back ends!
May 29, 2003 at 12:04 am #96292ddoublejMemberWell, any ways I still like the idea of the the Email thing better than the Profile (“Yes Im On-Line”) deal…..
May 29, 2003 at 2:08 am #96295Celtic_coventinaMemberYeah, I can’t say that the trust is there like it should be in regular IM’s…with a regular friend. Every little glitch makes me jumpy. And he is pushing for voice chats…which scares me because I read that hackers like voice chat….I did end the friendship once but I missed talking to him (very funny guy) I’ll probably be here a month from now crying that I should not have trusted my hacker friend and then you can say….I told ya so…..But like I said I am trying to make myself harder to hack including bogus addy info in my yahoo account. Anyone with hints to keep me hack proof please post…or do I need to start another thread for that?
May 29, 2003 at 12:37 pm #96291ddoublejMemberyou know Celtic one good way to make your password more protective; is that when ever you log-on to yahoo! (not YMessenger) to make double sure that you are on a secure connection. you know how it gives you that option right below the continue button… (Mode: Standard | Secure) all you gotta do is log-on under “Secure” mode and your fine. The Secure connection has at least 128bit encryption code (thats just about impossible to hack) but never put a check in the box where it says “Remember my ID on this computer”, because somtimes hackers can retrace that cookie that Yahoo! leaves behind in your PC and your ‘done’……..
May 29, 2003 at 1:51 pm #96294Celtic_coventinaMemberThanks ddoublej I will remember that!! And I do not use the remember my password option…my password is stored in the one place I know can not be hacked…My head. ~(Well, I guess my head could be hacked…*ouch*but they’d have to find me… and then catch me first!….)
May 30, 2003 at 12:28 am #96290ddoublejMemberYeah, right, that sounds more like the Matrix or something….hehe
June 1, 2003 at 6:12 pm #96304JohnsonMemberIt’s not a program, it is a link from yahoo, so yahoo lets you do it, i mainly use it to find cam whores LOL, http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.src=&.done=http%3a//edit.yahoo.com/config/set_buddygrp%3f.src=%26.bg=
just goto the link and sign in your id and password, and make a group, and add their id, don’t put anything in the box, that says message for user or w/e, if u leave it blank they will never know you added them ;), dunno if anyone else answered that question, kinda stupid to make a program and just put a link in it, don’t ya thinkJune 1, 2003 at 9:02 pm #96277OreoMemberExcuse my ignorance…but what exactly is a “Cam Whore” I know what a cam is and I am aware of the definition of a whore….. but not the two of them together….please advise.
June 1, 2003 at 11:37 pm #96272mariettelarkinMemberGood one, Oreo. I think the bigger question is, how do you spell SPY!
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