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Instant Messaging

I don't see a send button. How do I send my message?

There is no send button. Just click on the Enter key on your keyboard.

If I have an AOL account can I IM someone with a Yahoo account?

If you want to IM someone who has a Yahoo IM account, you will need to have a Yahoo account yourself and add your Yahoo account to your meebo account.

I have set my status in MSN to "Busy", but it shows me as "Away From Computer"?

Currently status messages for MSN are not supported. MSN will only display “away From Computer”

Which IM networks can I leave offline messages for buddies using meebo

Meebo supports offline messages for ICQ, Yahoo, Google Talk, and Jabber. MSN offline messages is currently not supported within meebo.

How do I change the font size for outgoing and incoming messages?

If you open up a chat window with a buddy and change the font size within the IM window, this setting will automatically be applied for all your outgoing IMs. Currently, there is no option to change the font size of incoming messages.

I unchecked save my history to view later. How come I still see my old chat logs?

If you un-check ‘save my im history to view later’, the conversations that takes place after un-checking this option will not be logged.
Previous chat logs will remain. If you don’t want the old chat logs anymore, you can delete it.

To delete a chat log:

  1. Right click on the buddy you want delete chat logs for, then click View Chat Log.
  2. Click on the X Delete All at the left corner of the chat log window. This will delete the entire chat conversations with that buddy.

You can refer to Chat Logs for more info.

My buddy who doesn't use meebo, don't see the emoticons I send. They see text instead.

Our emoticons are designed to work within meebo. If other users aren’t using meebo and doesn’t have an emoticon assigned to the shortcut, they will just the text or they will see the images that their IM network associates with the text. For example, “:D” and “:)” will appear as images on Yahoo whereas the pirate, “P)”, will appear as text.

We definitely have on our list to work on integrating emoticons with our supported IM networks.

For now, to send emoticons to your non-meebo-using contacts, you can consult these lists of emoticons available in the default clients: http://wiki.meebo.com/doku.php?id=emoticons

I see html tags within the IM that one of my MSN buddies sends me. Why?

Your buddy is using Messenger Plus! Live. Messenger Plus! Live is a 3rd party add-on for the Windows Messenger client. The official Windows Messenger client also sees the tags when interacting with Messenger Plus! Live users who use formatting within their messages. This is an issue with the 3rd party application.

How can I display my ICQ screen name instead of my ICQ number for my ICQ account?

Currently, with ICQ it's not possible to display the screen name for your ICQ account.