Yahoo Messenger allows users to send instant messages, join chat rooms, share photos, make voice and phone calls, video chat, send files, and search for contacts. It also has features like customizing your status, assigning ringtones, editing fonts and colors, and adding games, emoticons, avatars, and backgrounds to personalize chats. The document encourages downloading Yahoo Messenger because it is free, fun, and allows you to communicate with other users anywhere.

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by Ruth Mulvey

2. To get started:
You open a browser window and type in yahoo messenger.

3. Click on yahoo messenger download. This will open
a window to start the download process.

4. • This is
Yahoo
Messenger.
• You can
download it
here for
free.

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• There are so many things you can do with Yahoo
messenger besides just sending instant messages to
your friends. Microsoft Windows has many features
that you can use regarding communications.
• You can:
• Send instant messages to your friends
• Join chat rooms to discuss your favorite topics
• Share photos from your desktop
• Make voice calls to other Yahoo Messengers
• Call friends on their phones from Yahoo Messenger

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• Get a phone in account and receive phone calls in
Yahoo Messenger
• Send text messages to your friends mobile phones
for free
• You can plug in a webcam and share live video with
your friends
• IM conferencing is available to instant message with
many friends at one time
• You can also send files instantly to a friend while you
are chatting with them (this feature has a 2GB limit)

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• Allow IM Forwarding to send instant messages to
your mobile phone as text messages
• Use a Contact Search Bar to search for your IM
friends
• Start a web search right from your Yahoo! Messenger
window
• View and edit your Yahoo! Address Book information
• Make yourself invisible to some friends while
appearing visible to others at the same time
• Use call forwarding to send incoming calls to another
phone number

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• Use Yahoo! Mail alerts which notify you when
you have a new Yahoo! Mail message arrives
• Voice mail is available when you are not
• Message Archiving to maintain your
communications
• Tabbed IM Windows to reduce desktop clutter
by organizing multiple conversations into a
single window
• Buzz Alert to get your friend’s attention with a
click of the Buzz button

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• Plug-ins are available to add content, services, and games to
Messenger
• Audibles allow you to send an animated, talking character to liven
up your IM
• Emoticons let you express your feelings with animated, smiling
faces
• Avatars which represent your style and graphic image
• Skins which give your IM world a new look
• IMVironments liven things up with interactive, themed backgrounds
in the IM window
You can make your IMs fun and
personalized by using:

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• Yahoo! Games allows you to play games such as pool,
backgammon, checkers, and more
• Allows you to customize your online status message
to let your friends know what you are doing, seeing,
or feeling
• Assign custom ring tones to different callers or
upload your own audio files to use
• Customize fonts and colors to suit your personality
• During voice calls you can throw in a sound effect or
upload a music file to play as a soundtrack in the
background

11. • To recap:
• Download
Yahoo!
Messenger:
• It’s fun, it’s
free, and you
can talk to
anyone
anywhere as
long as they
have it too