Some people nowadays prefer to stay “invisible mode” while using Yahoo! Messenger, just to avoid chat when they are busy or to avoid someone. Hmm… Is he/she avoiding you? Wanna know if someone is not totally “offline,” in fact he/she may be online but with Invisible status. Here’s the easy way to know if someone is invisible or not.
1. At the main window of Yahoo! Messenger. As you can see, one is invisible, the other isn’t. Double Click on the user name whose status is “offline” or “invisible” user will show a gray icon on the left of her name.
2. A message window will open. Now, let’s start a conversation. Send a message to the user, or just send a BUZZ!!!.
3. Now is the interesting part. Choose the IMVironment button, select See all IMVironments, select Yahoo! Tools or Interactive Fun, and choose Doodle.
4. The last step and the most important step. After loading the Doodle IMVironment, there will be two possibilities.
- If the paper start to roll up, you will immediately know that he/she is online but invisible.
Let’s make the other totally offline and see what happen.
- If the user is offline, the paper didn’t roll up and the Doodle area will show “waiting for your friend to load Doodle” continuously, like this:
Waiting for your friend to load Doodle. Means that the user is offline.
(it can take up a minute, depending on connection speed)
all images are created by: CutestPrincess
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March 25th, 2009 at 4:16 am
I do frequently keep my status as ‘invisible’. Hope my friends don’t read this article. Interesting tip!!
March 25th, 2009 at 4:35 am
thanks for the info.
March 25th, 2009 at 4:35 am
Very interesting … well illustrated too, thanks for sharing.
March 25th, 2009 at 4:36 am
hey that’s pretty cool! i never thought it was possible!
March 25th, 2009 at 4:38 am
a really interesting and very informative article with very clear diagrams. i really liked it.
March 25th, 2009 at 4:43 am
I don’t use Yahoo messenger. I use Skype instead. There if someone is too busy to speak to you a little telephone engaged signal covers their skype symbol. My son in Japan uses this a lot when he is too busy to talk. A useful article.
Christine
March 25th, 2009 at 6:41 am
i use http://www.imvisible.info, just enter any yahoo id and check their status.
3 advantages:
-they need not be in your friend’s list
-they will never know you are checking their status
-you need not login to your messenger yourself, atleast you dont need a yahoo messenger installed.
March 25th, 2009 at 6:59 am
thanks for the tip..
March 25th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Very interesting article.
March 25th, 2009 at 8:05 am
Use http://www.invisible-scanner.com way cooler!
March 25th, 2009 at 8:06 am
http://www.invisible-scanner.com/
March 25th, 2009 at 8:53 am
So I know. Thanks.
March 25th, 2009 at 9:15 am
I hope my ex dosn’t know how to do this!
March 25th, 2009 at 10:50 am
An entire society I have no idea about. Thanks for the info CP.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:28 am
CP, thanks for the info! Very clear and detailed!
March 25th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
glad you started this CP.. now we have 2 more websites to use!
March 25th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Helpful information.
March 25th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Well that’s very devious
March 25th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
This is very helpful. Thanks for your tutorial.
March 25th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
I show offline a lot Cutest especially if I’m in the middle of an article hope my friends don’t catch on to this one lol Great article
March 25th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Really cool…I never even knew someone could be ‘invisible’ online. How did you learn of this technique to ‘find’ a ghost?
March 26th, 2009 at 3:15 am
I dont use Yahoo Messenger, but I guess its handy info in case I ever do.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:24 am
seriously i never thought it was so easy and interesting
coool
March 26th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Grat Work.
March 26th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Cool, I didn’t know it.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
I don’t use yahoo messenger but this is pretty interesting!
March 26th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Nice trick! why i didnt read that before.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Thank you that happened to me before I just wanted to doodle by myself and i counldn’t becuase they were offline. Thank you.
March 27th, 2009 at 4:14 am
bleah complicated
invisible-scanner.com
March 27th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
This is a great article.Helped me too because I use yahoo messenger.Now i can check on my friends.Thanks.Keep the articles coming.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
I am invisible for a reason and it is because I don’t like the unknown brats trying to chat and get me to look at their nasty porn webcams. Plus I usually am busy and don’t want ANY one to bug me. I am not happy you posted this as most who are invisible have a good reason why they don’t want to be bothered.
March 27th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Very nice, I never thought to do something like that. Very good. Thanks for the info
March 27th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
wonderful, mind blowing, cool , superb……….what else to say. I really liked this article. Simple and clear. keep it up.
March 28th, 2009 at 3:49 am
great work! Thanx for the great info. Keep it up
March 28th, 2009 at 5:40 am
http://www.invisible-scanner.com
And the guy I spy doesnt know what hit him!!!!
March 30th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Thanks for sharing CP…
April 1st, 2009 at 8:13 am
oh no, you revealed the truth out.. I used to be invisible all time, bcoz I never love to chat and just to check msg I login… Praying GOD sincerely that my friends should not give a try to catch me
April 6th, 2009 at 8:15 am
a very good invisible scanner is http://www.narubian.com never busy
April 8th, 2009 at 7:35 am
you’re a genius =)
April 12th, 2009 at 1:13 am
i have iMac not windows:(
May 11th, 2009 at 1:43 am
Nice Work Boss…but
Is there any Procedure to keep invisible status without knowing others ???
May 20th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I personally use http://www.detectinvisible.me, and I found it excellent.
Gorgeous interface, fast.
They even have a desktop application for yahoo status checking named Detect Invisible.Me.
June 28th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
great tip, now if someone does that to me I’ll just block them for being too clingy and creepy instead of pretending to be invisible to avoid hours of boring chats that go nowhere except to them describing their loneliness and inability to get a man/woman
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
aha! eureka!
thanks a lot….
July 6th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
nice tip there.
now let’s un-invisible them all.