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Yahoo! Messenger is a popular free instant messaging client which can be downloaded and used with a "Yahoo! ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email.
Features include:
- Person-to-person text messaging
- Audio chat (PC-to-PC calls)
- Video conferencing
- File transfer and sharing
- Chat room messaging
- E-mail facilities
- SMS
- Gaming
- Offers firewall support
- Chat logging facility
- Create a list of blocked or allowed senders
- Requires approval to add a new contact into the contact list
- IMVironments to customise the look of Instant Message windows
- Custom status messages
- Customised avatars
- Ability to send messages to offline contacts
- Web-based version available (has limited features, but does not require any software to be installed).
In 2006, Yahoo! entered a partnership with Microsoft to join their instant messaging networks so that Microsoft's Window's Live Messenger Service became compatible with Yahoo!'s Network.
Yahoo! Messenger Emoticons
Below we list the Emoticons available exclusively in Yahoo! Messenger, along with their associated keyboard shortcuts:
Favourites (IE)
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