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Sometimes you’d want to use a different identity or alias when you join chat rooms in Yahoo Messenger besides your personal account. Most of you would probably try to create a new Yahoo id. But if you do so, that would mean you would have to sign out of your original account and sign in to your new account to use it.

Yahoo has a feature which allows you to create aliases within your existing Yahoo id/account. By creating aliases, you can hide your true Yahoo id in chat rooms. Why would you wanna hide your true id? Well for security reasons and to avoid spammers. In addition, you can use your aliases to chat or send message to your existing friends. They wouldn’t know it’s you because they would see your alias instead of your own account… (hehehe!)

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Do you know there are websites which allow you to login to your Instant Messaging (IM) accounts like Yahoo, MSN, AIM, and GTalk without installing any software clients? This is good for those people who are not given permission by administrators to install anything from their computers. Or to those who are using other people’s computer which doesn’t have the IM software that they need. The good thing about these online messengers is that they work even if you’re behind firewalls. So check out these two websites.

1. Meebo (www.meebo.com)
2. Ebuddy (www.ebuddy.com)

On the other hand, the problem with using online messengers is the unavailability of some features such as webcams and file transfers and others…But if you simply want to chat, these sites will be very useful.