You want to chat with a buddy on Yahoo! Messenger but his status on Yahoo! says Off-Line.
There are two possibilities here – your friend could be really offline or he may have logged into Yahoo! Messenger in “Invisible Mode” to avoid interruptions.
(Yahoo! Messenger has a Stealth settings feature that lets you choose the people who see you as online and offline.)
You can however beat that mask easily with services like Xeeber or VNGrabber that reveal the exact status of your Yahoo! Messenger friends or any other Yahoo! user.
All you have to do is type the Yahoo! Messenger username and you will instantly know the exact online status of that person. Time to put on your detective gloves.
Visit XeeBer.com and VNGrabber.com | Thanks Shweta.
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Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/voice/yahoo-messenger-friend-status-online-offline-invisible/1731/
Reader Comments
I tried both the site with my user id logged invisiblily,but did not get any results.hope its not a id/email collecting site
Written by Pankaj on 11.05.07
Interesting post Amit.
Another trick that i have used since past is to invite the offline contact for conference. If the contact is really offline, i get an alert stating that, else nothing happens and i come to know that the contact is indeed online ;)
Cheers
Vaibhav
Written by Vaibhav on 11.06.07
boss,
i tested xeeber.com . it doesnt work as you say.
i tested my own yahoo messenger id . it shows me offline , though i am online (“offline” in stealth mode).
can you verify that .
regards
vinodhsen
Written by vinodhsen on 11.06.07
Try BudySpy.It’s far better
Written by abhijnan on 11.07.07
@vinodhsen : try link
Written by Jighi on 11.08.07
Yup, really nice trick, Thanks for sharing. I would write about it ;)
Written by Rita on 11.08.07