To communicate with anyone you first have to add them to your friends list, in this part of our Yahoo!^® Messenger tutorial we will show you how to add friends to your friends list.

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In part two:
Adding friends to your list. Continue to Part 3. Back to course menu.

Adding friends to your list

After opening the messenger program you will see the main messenger box (see fig 1.1), click on the Add button (as shown in fig 1.1)

You will now be presented with three options asking how you would like to add your friend, By Yahoo! ID, By Email Address or Search for a friend.

By Yahoo!^® ID is the default way to add a friend which is what we will use in our example, so click the Next button.

You will now see the Add a friend dialogue box similar to that shown in fig 1.2.

A person's Yahoo!^® ID ís the first part of their Yahoo!^® email address, in our example we want to add a friend with the yahoo ID helpwithpcs_friend so we enter that in the box provided (see fig 1.2).

You can create different groups for your friends, for example you could have one group for family members and one group for work colleagues, enter the name of the group you want to add this friend to (in fig 1.2 we are creating the group family).

Leave your identity as it is (unless you want to change it for some reason).

The Message to Friend box allows you to add a small message to let them know you have added them.

When you have filled in all the information simply click the Finish button, you will then be told that a message has been sent to the person with that Yahoo!^® ID asking permission for you to add them as your friend. It also asks you if you would like to enter any additional information about your friend, for instance a nickname, if you do click the Yes button, otherwise click No.

Now you will see the friend in your friends list on the main messenger screen (see next part of tutorial), don't forget to tell your friend to add you to their friends list too.