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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn. Updated on April 09, Tweet Share Email. Was this page helpful? You can also enter more information about the person, including his e-mail address and mobile phone number. Your Buddy List tells you which of your contacts are online and which are offline. The contacts that are online are listed under their group headings. Those that are offline are listed at the bottom in a group titled "Offline. The easiest way to send an IM is to send a message to someone on your Buddy List.
There are two basic ways to do that:. Once you've opened an IM window, it's easy to send a message. Simply type your message into the white text box near the bottom of the IM window.
When you're finished typing, either hit the enter key on your keyboard or click the "send" button in the bottom right corner of the IM window. The text that you entered will appear in the top half of the IM window.
When your buddy replies, you'll see his or her response under your message like a conversation. AIM will notify you with an alert tone when you receive a new IM. Do you want to read it?
If you want to IM several people at the same time, you can invite all the participants to join a temporary chat room. Here's how you set up a chat:. A chat room works the same as normal IM. To send a message to the group, type it into the text box and press the enter key or click send.
A classic feature of AIM is the smiley or emoticon. AIM comes with 16 different smileys to graphically express your mood, from silly to grumpy to flirty. To add a smiley to your message, click on the yellow smiley face icon and make your selection. To do this, you'll need to know the cell phone number of the person you wish to send it to. Here's how you send a text message in AIM 6. There's even a new feature called IM forwarding that forwards IMs to your cell phone when you're away from your computer.
You can activate IM forwarding by going into the main Edit menu and clicking on Settings. In the Settings window, choose Mobile and register your cell phone for IM forwarding. You can even reply to forwarded IMs with text messages from your cell phone. To make Internet phone calls through AIM, you'll need a headset with a built-in microphone or a computer with speakers and a microphone.
Here's how to make a free voice call in AIM 6. The same is true for free video calls. Simply double-click on a buddy and click the "Video" button at the bottom of the IM window.
Of course, you'll need a webcam to participate in video calls. You can call any phone number directly from AIM, but you'll be charged by the minute. File-sharing is a useful new feature of AIM. You can easily send individual files or whole file folders to any other AIM user. Here's how it works:. For sharing photos, AIM 6. This feature lets you drag and drop photos into the IM window. The photos will be resized and sent instantly to the recipient as individual pics or a slideshow.
With AIM 6. You can now create a public or private profile page on which to share photos, hobbies and links. These AIM Profile pages include links to your buddies' pages as well. Now let's take a look at AIM Express, a new service that doesn't require downloading of software.
On an increasing basis, computer users are depending on instant messaging to reach friends, even when they're not at home. AIM Express, a new service, allows users to send IMs to friends without downloading or running any software.
Friends can talk to friends from any location as long as they're at a computer that has Internet access. They can use it at home, school or work. The application loads your entire Buddy List.
You'll be able to see if anyone on your BL is currently signed in Can you even remember why you had them blocked, or better yet, who they are? Bring on those class reunion icebreakers Sadly, a few key features have not withstood the test of time. Your away messages are gone, as is your lovingly curated profile.
They exist now only in your memory. Skip to main content Tech. Joe McGauley is a senior writer for Thrillist and still gets a little endorphin hit whenever he hears the beebadoop ding of an incoming AIM message.
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