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January 12, 2004 at 3:45 pm #4930islaricaMember
Hey everybody….. im trying to find out if there is a way to see if someone is really online and invisible ………. Ive been invisible numerous times and Ive been told there area ways that i can be “seen” online……. if thats possible i would love to find out how its done…….
January 13, 2004 at 3:16 pm #51240riff_raff_50076Membertry looking in your address book and see if they show up there ( they have to have a yahoo email account and not have checked the hide my online status ) But remember if someone is invisable its for a reason and you should respect thier privacy
January 15, 2004 at 11:59 pm #51241rafaelemtMemberHi
You can check if someone is invisible or offline by doing the following: Open the IM for that person and click on the INVITE icon if the conference window apears ready for conference the peroson is invisible, if on the contrary you receive a error message then the person is really offline.Try it it works fine for me.January 16, 2004 at 11:36 pm #51244collaredtoy2002MemberWhen someone is invisible on my messenger on the pc, they usually are. I share the pc with my roommate and when I want to chat I use my cell phone that has YIM and AOL on it. It take a bit for it to go thru but if that person is really off line it will not go thru, but if they are invisible and on line it will it will go thru. Just another way you can see as well. If you have a web base cell phone.
January 17, 2004 at 6:21 pm #51243zhugeliangMemberThere is also another way to check, but if someone is invisible, they want some privacy and don’t want any IM’s unless they IM you, so with this little bit of knowledge, i hope you respect the person who is invisible.
Now on to the good stuff. If you want a really quick way to check and see if someone is online and without them knowing it, just check the profile. If they are online, it will say “online” under thier picture (or where their picture would go). Most Yahoo IM users dont’ know you can turn that feature off, and by checking that, they don’t get scared about how you found out they are online, since an invitation might make them think you’re hacking them or something. However, if the user does know that they can turn that feature off, then you won’t see anything under thier picture as far as “offline” or “online” is concerned.
Please, respect the “invisible” person’s privacy and don’t bother them unless you absolutely have to.
January 17, 2004 at 8:11 pm #51245anythingsfineParticipantIn response to what you said, I don’t think that’s really true. When I go online invisible and check my own profile the box under my pic says offline, same with many of my other friends..if invisible the box will say offline not online and we didn’t check to box to hide our status.
January 18, 2004 at 4:12 am #51242zhugeliangMemberWell, that’s weird, cause mine and all my friends say that i’m online. Guess I’ll just have to do more research on that won’t I. 🙂
January 21, 2004 at 2:37 pm #51238sciencefeelingMemberAs someone said above, it depends if you checked the box “allow other people to check my status online” (or something like that, I only know the exact sentence in spanish), when you created the ID.
So if that person chose not to show their status on the web, then you won´t be able to find out by looking at your address book, Online Status Indicator, or profile. If they forgot to uncheck the box, then yes you will be able to.
The conference thing…it works for me.
N.-March 5, 2004 at 5:27 pm #51246New2blueballMemberQuote:quote:You can check if someone is invisible or offline by doing the following: Open the IM for that person and click on the INVITE icon if the conference window apears ready for conference the peroson is invisible, if on the contrary you receive a error message then the person is really offline.I have seen many posts suggesting that this is the best method to see if someone is invisible or offline, but my question is that if the user IS invisible, won’t they get a message from you to join the conference? Then they will know that you are trying to find out if they are online or not? I tried this with a user who I knew was Invisible, and he simply joined the conference – knowing that I had clicked invite.
Is there a better way to do it without letting that peson know at all? Keeping in mind that the yahoo status in their profile will not always work depending on their setting.
March 5, 2004 at 7:52 pm #51239coolguyj2Memberwell this is the best method and I dont think there is any other method so stable and efficient… the only drawback is tht the user comes to know… the only thing you can do it is act fast… that is check and quickly close the invitation… this way the person wont come to know who checked this his status…
j2August 27, 2005 at 3:26 am #51247bbe7994Memberon this same subject…..what if the person is truely offline and you send an invite to conference……will they see it when they sign on again? like an offline message??
August 27, 2005 at 1:10 pm #51249__m3nt4l__MemberI wonder why no one has said about BuddySpy :confused:.
September 23, 2005 at 12:54 am #51248bbe7994Memberi have found that if i try the invite to conference, it always opens the conference window, i never get an error message, now sometimes the person i am checking on will click the decline invite button and ill get a message showing this, which tells me they are online and invisible, but sometimes i get NO message…..what would that mean? can they just close the invite window without clicking on accept OR decline?? and then i wouldnt get any message?
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