Is it possible to set set my yahoo acct so that it will always show an offline smiley face for me?

Question

I really don't like it when I am playing a game or something and not logged in to my Yahoo messenger and my friends-list people can see I'm online because they see that little lit-up smiley somewhere. Is there some way I can set my account so that it will always have the darkened, offline smiley face beside my name?

Answer 1

yes, u have to go to EDIT MY PROFILES,, clcik at the MESSENGER menu at the top if u use yahoo messenger and teher u clcik at MY PROFILES and tahn clcik at the CREAT/EDIT PROFILES and it will open a webpage,, if u do not use yahoo messenger clcik at the MY ACCOUNT at the top beside SIGN OUT on yahoo answers and there u go to CREAT/EDIT PROFILE from the right side beside the CHANGE PASSWORD  and when u reach to profiles, there u will see an option, DO NOT SHOW MY STATUS ON YAHOO WEB PAGES or something like this,, just uncheck the box beside this dialoge ,, thats all,,it,ll not show ur status as online even if u r online.

Answer 2

Here's a Yahoo link that describes what to do and gives you a link to your own profile to do it,

http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/onl...

"If you don't want other people to know when you are online on Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Chat or Yahoo! Games, you can disable the online status feature at anytime. Here's how:

-Log out of Yahoo! Messenger (Pager), Yahoo! Chat or Yahoo! Games.

-Go to the Edit Profiles Page

-You should see a check box that says next to it, Check the box to hide my online status from other users.

-Checking the box will hide your online status. If you leave the box unchecked, other people will know when you're online.

-Make sure to click on the Finished Editing button when you're done.

Log back into Yahoo! Messenger, Chat or Games and your new settings should be working."