Yahoo! Answers Blog Malaysia

Happy 2009 everyone! Welcome to another new year, and hopefully things will get better, petrol prices will remain low and there will be peace in the country. So how was your new year? Mine was spent with my family in the morning, and met up with friends in the afternoon. It’s always a joy to meet friends, especially those you have not talked to for a long time, at the start of a new year. It’s like, a new beginning!

But of course, if we only met our friends once a year, that would be terrible. Do you and your friends go online often? If so, and if you have the Yahoo! Messenger, you can add them onto your friends list! Try the new online invitation to invite your friends onto your Yahoo! Messenger list. You can instantly add friends who are on Gmail, Hotmail, Facebook, MySpace and more.

Here’s how it works:

Step 1: Select the online service where your contacts are stored, i.e. Hotmail, Gmail, MySpace.

Step 2: Fill in your username and password for the service. Repeat that for each service you want to get contacts from.

Step 3: We’ll show you which of the friends in your address book(s) are already using Yahoo! Messenger. You can then quickly add them to your contact list and they will receive a prompt from you to confirm the request and add you to their list. If they’re not online at the time, they’ll receive the request the next time they sign in. Until they approve your request, they’ll remain in your list with an “Add request pending” note next to their name.

Step 4: We’ll show you all the other friends from your address book(s) that are not yet using Yahoo! Messenger.  For the friends that you select, we’ll send them an email on your behalf, inviting tme to chat with you on Yahoo! Messenger. From the email they receive, they can easily add you to their Messenger contact list, or if they’re new to Messenger, download the program and get started.

Add your friends and start chatting and share files and videos with Yahoo! Messenger’s easy-to-use tool!

Can you imagine being in a world without Instant Messaging? No? Well, neither can I. :O I mean, how can we chat with our friends sneakily while at work? How can we continue those juicy gossips once we reach home? Phones? Emails? What are those? (let’s not even talk about writing letters! lol!) Imagine not having instant messaging, would that mean we can only talk to our colleagues and that we may have to pick up the *gasp* phone? Alright, granted we can sneak in some smses with our flexible thumbs. But that definitely doesn’t make us look very “hardworking”.

So Yahoo! is proud to introduce you to Yahoo! Messenger 9.0. Nope it does not have an invisible-ability to hide itself on your desktop. But what it has are all these…

• Express yourself with new cool skins
• Show off your style with Emoticons, Avatars, Audibles and IMVironments
• Get real-time updates about what your friends are up to
• Share favourite videos and Flickr photos with your friends within your chat window
• Chat privately with friends on your social network profiles, blog or website through Pingbox

Go ahead, give Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 a try!