Yahoo obviously hates it’s own users.

To hell with them!

Anyhoo. I do still mean what I said though. About yahoo chat and stuff.

I find it symptomatic of yahoo policy in recent years, that they’ll rather work on implementing new features than fix the old ones.

First of all I don’t see the use of this. You’ll get a list of 1000+ random yahoo IDs and then what? Yahoo isn’t Facebook. Most people who use yahoo messenger don’t necessarily know their contacts in real life. They know them from chat rooms etc.

Secondly, most Yahoo IDs don’t have anything to do with who people really are. How on earth should I be able to figure out if “eaglehawk2000″ or some such yahoo ID on this hypothetical friends of friends list is someone I know or want to know?

Thirdly it is such a tool for spammers. I already get IM messages from spambots and I can only wonder how they are able to do that. But I can’t imagine having this sort of transparency would be an improvement here.

And lastly: Of all the people I have on my friends list, only a handful are someone I know in real life (like I mentioned in the above). The rest are people I have gotten to know through chatting in chatrooms. And most of those people also use yahoo messenger to stay in touch with online friends they have met in chatrooms.

I can’t help but wonder how Sarah Bacon on one hand can talk about how this feature would help making new friends, and at the same time in earlier blog posts admitting that Yahoo chat is a low low priority for Yahoo and practically abandoned and left to it’s own devices (the result of this disastrous lack of maintenance being frustratingly evident if you try using a chatroom).

Yahoo chat is how many many messenger users got to know eachother, and now Yahoo is doing a good job of scaring everyone away because they don’t see the “financial” or whatever benefit in keeping the chatrooms in working order.

If chatrooms aren’t a priority for Yahoo it means that it’s userbase isn’t a priority for Yahoo. But that can hardly be a surprise anymore. The strategies and decisions of this company has done a lot to alienate it’s userbase in the past years.

Talk about incompetent management!

Just as it does that if I delete someone from my list my block that I chose to put them on is no longer working, so, i may not get their messages, but unless I wanted to be invisiable they can see me as clear as day.

Not to mention the many friends that come ad go over the years, some may have deleted us, and I would like to do the same without having to ask if Im still on their list or not.. they deleted me for a reason, and probably wont reply truthfully if they are not on the up and up..

This app has potential to finaly do this for me.

Dont give me that privacy crap, it does not invate anyones privacy to be given the right to know whs list WE appear on, in fact it is better security for us..
now msn has always had this ability.. why not yahoo.. I know whos list I am on, and they know i know, If I am on their list why should they care that I know I am on their list.

I’d use this for fun also.. seriously YES there are a thousand and 1 weidoes out there, what girl in chat has not heard how she is the only one, nothing wrong with catching a liar with his pants down.. I dont care if my friends know who my friends are.. hey Id love them to all get along together, I am not hiding anyone from my lovers or friends, I hope that my lovers or friends dont either.

I guess the players will not like this so much