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August 30, 2009 at 1:03 pm #30946DrognarMember
I have a few friends on aim who I’m sure are invisible all the time, don’t know, don’t care. I’m not going to wait around all day because actually take themselfs off at completely random times.They don’t recieve Ims either, guess they don’t have the option on.
So first I would like know”Can I see offline users?. Please don’t tell spyaim, that doesn’t work at all, I tried with my account thought I was offline. I would also like to why they are so invis detectors for yahoo, but aim is like impossible lol.Secondly, I’d like to be able to message these people, just to tell them something.
Please help.August 30, 2009 at 3:41 pm #175570Doris KenneyParticipantNo invisible detector is reliable, regardless of whether it is for AIM, Yahoo, or WLM. You will likely end up infecting your machine with spyware and malware by using them. What you won’t get is a real idea if someone is online or not.
If you want to message these people and you don’t believe your messages are getting through to them when they are offline or invisible then I suggest sending them an email.
August 30, 2009 at 4:25 pm #175573DrognarMemberpatndoris;241490 wrote:No invisible detector is reliable, regardless of whether it is for AIM, Yahoo, or WLM. You will likely end up infecting your machine with spyware and malware by using them. What you won’t get is a real idea if someone is online or not.If you want to message these people and you don’t believe your messages are getting through to them when they are offline or invisible then I suggest sending them an email.
I have had experience with Invisible detectors for yahoo that work great, none of them are downloads either, and none of them give viruses. Some are BS, though. I find Ydetector.com is great for yahoo and about email thing, I don’t know their emails.
August 30, 2009 at 5:00 pm #175568imported_Ven0mMember@Drognar 241495 wrote:
I find Ydetector.com is great for yahoo
I can beat it and other invisible checkers. =P
I don’t believe invisible checkers for AIM and WLM exist. I’ve heard of fake ones out there that install malware on your PC.
August 30, 2009 at 5:18 pm #175569Doris KenneyParticipantJust because you don’t intentionally download something does not mean you cannot get malware on your machine. There are malicious sites out there and simply by visiting it you can become infected. That said, if you’ve used them without issue, that’s great. However, I don’t know anyone who has found one that is reliable, nor anyone who recommends using them.
If all you want to do is find an invisible detector that works for AIM, I’m afraid I wouldn’t suggest one even if I knew one that worked. It’s an invasion of privacy. People go invisible for a reason and that should be respected.
As to contacting them via email – how are you accessing AIM? When I sign into my AOL/AIM email and login into AIM from there and I hover over a contact, my options are email, IM and SMS. (I did NOT see the same option from AIM Express though.) If your contact is simply using AIM for chatting and does not check email there – you can’t do anything about that. I don’t use the stand alone AIM client so I don’t know exactly how it works from there but most messenger programs offer a way to email a contact when they are showing offline.
Let me know if you can’t find the email option from AIM mail and I’ll walk you through it in more detail.
August 30, 2009 at 10:45 pm #175572DrognarMemberAh, duh, i can email them now, I had another program I used to access AIM before that, somehow aim was still connecting me through that, and it wouldn’t show full contact details.
August 31, 2009 at 6:00 pm #175567FanaticMemberEmail — how old skool! 😉
November 14, 2009 at 2:24 am #175574ralfMemberpatndoris;241497 wrote:If all you want to do is find an invisible detector that works for AIM, I’m afraid I wouldn’t suggest one even if I knew one that worked. It’s an invasion of privacy. People go invisible for a reason and that should be respected.NO THEY SHOULD NOT BE RESPECTED.
How can you say such a thing?
From my experience people who use invisible:-
1) Come into online mode to chat to you about their stuff then shut you out when you want to chat about your stuff.
2) Be selective about who they chat to… fine you may say but by benignly respecting their invisible staus you are accepting the friendship of a buddy living a lie to you.
3) However, most importantly, they use Invisible to spy on others… yes, it is THEY who are the real invaders of your privacy.
I believe the concept of appearing online when offline as well as invisible online totally undermines the concept chat buddies and when one “buddy” objected to me breaking through his invisible barrier I told him quite bluntly that he should either respect me as a friend or delete me from my list instead of behaving so dishonestly to me. He told me the same thing that he had the right to have his invisibility respect and I told him in no uncertain terms that if that applied to him it should also apply to me which it was not by virtue of his effectively spying on my status secretly and that he was behaving like a creepy stalker..
Let me put something to you patndoris. If you were in your home openly visible from your windows and you noticed by chance someone furtively sitting in a car spying on your movements, if you went outside and introduced yourself to that person you would be invading their privacy but they would not be invading yours.
If we must keep this anachronistic option of Invisible then it should be a reciprocal option whereby if you put somebody or everybody in Invisible your status becomes invisible to them so they cannot see you.
That would cut out the stalkers, the creeps, the liars and the true invaders of privacy.
November 14, 2009 at 3:43 am #175571Doris KenneyParticipantHowever, most importantly, they use Invisible to spy on others… yes, it is THEY who are the real invaders of your privacy.
I can predict with reasonable certainty, my contacts have better things to do than sit around all day stealthily pretending to be offline, whilst surreptitiously monitoring my messenger presence.
That would cut out the stalkers, the creeps, the liars and the true invaders of privacy.
No, it wouldn’t.
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