When a user seems offline, in fact he/she may be online but with Invisible status (avoiding you?), but Yahoo! Messenger will show him/her as offline (the gray face icon).
Then, how do you know whether he/she is offline or online? Just follow these simple steps carefully. Its very simple.
1. See the main window of Yahoo! Messenger (works with version 5 or 6). An "offline" or "invisible" user will show a gray icon on the left of his/her name. Double-click on the username.
2. A message window will open. Send an arbitrary message to the user. After sending, quickly proceed to step 3.
3. Click IMVironment button, select See all IMVironments, select Yahoo! Tools or Interactive Fun, and click on Doodle.
4. The last step and the most important step. After loading the Doodle IMVironment, there will be two possibilities.
* If the user is offline, the Doodle area will show "waiting for your friend to load Doodle" continuously.
* But if the user is online (in invisible mode), after few seconds (it can take up to one minute, depending on connection speed), you will get a blank page. So the user is online!!!!
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