Yahoo! Messenger (YIM) is one of the oldest and most well-known instant messaging clients in the world. And its established reputation is largely well-deserved. Installing YIM on your computer you get almost everything you may want to get from an IM client: chat and chat rooms (large open chats similar to IRC channels), PC-to-PC and PC-to-Phone call functions, wide selection of available plug-ins, etc.
YIM is praised by many for its flexible stealth functions. If you are not in the mood or don't want to be disturbed by your friends or colleagues every two minutes, you can just login invisible to everyone and chat with some of them. If you don't want specific people to know you're on-line, just set the option to be invisible to them.
Another useful feature is the Yahoo! Messenger's SMS service. What everyone will definitely like about it is that it's free and quite comfortable to use. However, there's a small fly in the ointment: the SMS service is subject to a five-message limit. It means that you can't send more than five messages to a number till you get a reply from that number.
If you want to do more than just SMSing to mobile numbers you may want to sign up for Yahoo! Phone Out and make PC-to-Phone calls for an average of 2 cents per minute.
Apart from the above-mentioned features, the latest version of the program, the Yahoo! Messenger 11, has had some new ones added. more
It is a very useful tool, which can help you to communicate with your friends.
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