Sunnyvale, California — Imagine having your social media Facebook contacts with you, even while you are sifting through your mails on Yahoo! Well, it is true, users of Yahoo Mail can now chat with their Facebook friends from within Yahoo Mail.
“To all you fellow Facebook fanatics out there, you might already know that we provide Facebook integration in our download-able Messenger client,” Yahoo Mail senior product manager Stephanie Shum wrote in a blog post. “Now you can chat with your Facebook friends in Yahoo Mail too.”
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Moreover, Shum also stated that users will now have access to their archived conversations on Yahoo Messenger online regardless of which client they used. When you click on the “Conversations” tab that is below the “Inbox” option, you will instantly be able to see all of your previous conversations.
“Presently you can chat with your Facebook friends in Yahoo Mail and that to you can find the same on the left side, users will see ‘Facebook Friends’ under ‘Online Contacts’,” Yahoo stated.
“If you click on the thunderbolt, you will be forced to confirm on Facebook Connect. Once you have confirmed, your online Facebook contacts will now be visible instantly below ‘Online Contacts’ and you can chat unreservedly whilst you send or check your mails,” it elucidated.
However, lately the mail service of Yahoo beta has recently been receiving a lot of criticism from users owing to the issues relating to the downloading of attachments, as also, users complained of being logged out randomly.
Shum acknowledged the pestering issue and said that the company is aware of these problems and is working to alleviate them. This new feature seems to make for an interesting development; however, we are still waiting for the final verdict.
Yahoo has been working on integrating social media Facebook in to the entire of its products and its communication related ones make the most sagacity. The most recent Yahoo Messenger 11 Beta guarantees users to chat with Facebook friends, just like they can with their standard Yahoo and Hotmail contacts.
The most freshest Yahoo Mail Beta update also touts a welcomed UI tweak. By default, the header of the page vestiges static and user can easily scroll via the lower part, where the messages and the genuine content to be founded.
Nevertheless, because the header is not always needed, it just eats up the space that would moderately be used to exhibit content. At the moment, users can disable the static header by facilitating the “Scroll content of the entire page” in their Mail options.