Yahoo! Mail and Facebook
April 1st, 2010 Filed in: Announcements,Applications,General 13 comments
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Loading ...Last December Yahoo! announced its plans for integrating Facebook’s friends activities into Yahoo! Mail in 2010. This week we’ve introduced another great feature to bring Facebook and Yahoo! Mail closer together: Now you can update your facebook status without having to leave your Yahoo! Mail account. Check out the post below, from the US Mail Blog for all the details:
If you use Facebook, Yahoo! Mail is getting better for you! As you may have heard, Yahoo! is putting a big focus on bringing you more social features, and this evening Yahoo! Mail is rolling out another handy way to connect with your friends. In select markets, we’re adding the ability to update your Facebook status right from Yahoo! Mail and see your friends’ Facebook profile photos when they email you. This quickly follows the feature we added last month that lets you easily import your Facebook friends’ email addresses to Yahoo! Contacts.
To turn on these features, first link your Yahoo! and Facebook accounts by clicking on the “Add to Facebook” link in the status section on the What’s New page in Yahoo! Mail.
After you log in with your Facebook credentials, you are good to go! Here’s what you’ll be able to do right from Yahoo! Mail:
Update your Facebook Status: Simply start typing what’s on your mind in the status box, and then choose where you want to share it – Yahoo!, Facebook or both.
Now hit “Share” and it gets posted where you want, including Facebook!
See Facebook profile photos when people email you: With this feature, you will see people’s Facebook profile photos – if available – anytime someone emails you. In addition, by clicking on the profile image, you will go right to that person’s Facebook page.
Now, whether you want to send an email, IM, or update your Yahoo! or Facebook status, you can do it all from your Yahoo! Mail inbox. This integration of Facebook is just the start of how we plan to make it easier to do more right from Yahoo! Mail. Watch this space for more ways you can bridge your social worlds and Yahoo! Mail in the weeks and months ahead!
If your account is not showing the Facebook integration yet, don’t worry. This feature is being rolled out gradually and soon it will be available across everyone’s mailboxes!
Happy Easter!
Tasla W. – Yahoo!7 Mail team
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1. Brian McCann "TheMusicMan&hellip | April 9th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Hi to all our friends on Facebook & Yahoo now using this service like Sheryle & I. BRIAN “TheMusicMan
2. Paya&hellip | April 13th, 2010 at 10:54 am
Verygood
3. Spiker&hellip | May 11th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
It is idiotic to assume that I WANT my Facebook profile photo to show up in Yahoo emails I send – who gaves you that right to intrude in my privacy? Who says privacy management must be the same on Facebook and Yahoo? Just because I want my facebook account to show a phto, it doesn’t mean that I want my Yahoo account to show my face, geneus.
4. Yahoo!7 Mail Team&hellip | May 12th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
@ Spiker – Your Facebook photo won’t appear in every email you send out to anyone just by default. Your photo will only appear if the receiver of your email is also your friend on Facebook and has gone through the process of importing his/hers Facebook friends into Yahoo! Mail. In this case the Yahoo! and Facebook accounts of both of you will be linked and the Facebook profile photo will be displayed when you email each other.
Cheers,
Tasla – Yahoo!7 Mail team
5. tracie&hellip | May 22nd, 2010 at 5:20 am
i linked my facebook and yahoo together, now i would like to unlink!! how can i do this? every little thing that happens on facebook comes to my yahoo email, therefore i have like 100 unread messsages a day on yahoo!!! someone tell me how the stop this madness!!!!!!!
6. Meghan&hellip | June 2nd, 2010 at 11:09 am
One of my college instructor’s facebook pic shows up in the emails she sends out from her .edu account. Both of us have tried finding a way to disable this with no luck. There appears to be nothing in either facebook or the college email that would allow disabling.
As to the information in response 4, I am neither her friend on fb nor have I imported any contacts from fb to yahoo.
Is this an issue that is occurring with others, and if so, will it be resolved soon?
Thanks,
Meghan
7. WANDA PICKENS&hellip | July 14th, 2010 at 4:00 am
I would like to know how to unlink ,my yahoo with my facebook account? HELPPPPPPPP
8. diane&hellip | July 15th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
I want to UNLINK my facebook and Yahoo but everything I read on the Internet doesn’t help because it’s isn’t detailed enough. It will say things like, “click in the What’s New” and I hope no idea if that’s on Facebook or Yahoo, or where to find it. Can you help?
9. diane&hellip | July 15th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Tracie, Your problem is different than mine. I think with you, Facebook requires an email address so you can just make up a new one at Yahoo.com and then go into your Facebook account and put in the new one (or an old one that you don’t use anymore). Facebook will then send all those emails to an account that you don’t really ever use. Hope this helps! My problem is that Facebook blurbs (from last year) are showing up on my Yahoo and some are blurbs from my brother’s old girlfriend to him on Facebook telling him how much she wants him back, etc. Do I need to see this every day? No, I do not. I want Facebook and Yahoo kept totally separate but can’t figure out how. Help, someone. Anyone?
10. Ahsan&hellip | July 25th, 2010 at 6:06 am
Thanks Yahoo!
can I get some knowledge … and can I convey to the people closest to me ..
wonderful
11. john&hellip | August 22nd, 2010 at 8:30 am
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/connections/
12. VICKYVOL&hellip | August 30th, 2010 at 2:50 am
How do I disable yahoo mail for facebook? I want them to be separate and thank you for instructions ion how to diable in advance.
13. sesil&hellip | February 25th, 2011 at 9:55 pm
hi! is it possible to that my facebook status will automatically be my status in YM too?? just like that of MSN messenger.?
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