I often see people in yahoo personal and it says they are online,what does this mean?
99124
It means that, at that moment, they're logged into their yahoo personals account.
1084578
U dont recieve offline mesege then it can b ur ID is used to login to mesenger by some other person . So he sees them but u dont.
437318
Mainly, having a profile online, and corresponding with someone whose interesetd in you, after reading your profile. It's worth some whilrls, but if you meet someone online, it wont necessarily be someone in the same city, state or country, as you are.
440309
It's randomly shown to certain users.  If you cleared your cookies or moved to a different computer, it reverts back.
1036346
Just add your friends on your list, and if whoever is online would appear online, otherwise they would appear offline. Bear in mind that some users can use the stealth settings which allow to appear offline.
623979
It means they havent used the Instant Messenger for a while.\nThey still might be using the computer but not the messenger.\n\nWhen the person is back, or just clicks on the Messanger window, the "idle" thing dissappears.
659593
If you are using messenger programs, maybe one of your contacts have logged in. You cannot see other IDs that are not in your contacts. You can only see your friends when they are online of offline.\n\nYahoo! and other mail programs are always strict on other people's IDs and privacy. They WILL NEVER show you a time where people would log in or out.\n\nYour issue is on messenger. You contacts are logging in and out.
257920
might be your friend posted it. lol. or you from a cafe or another computer which has internet access. many reasons. lol. good one.
1138516
mine is doing it to.\ndoes it say like u have succesfully logged on to etc.?\ndo u have AIM?
1010755
It means they can receive im's on their phone.  More than likely you can't communicate with this person when it appears because they are not on the web on their phone at the time.
571111
What do you mean? \n\nDo you want to know if anyone on your buddy list is online while you're offline?\n\nor\n\nDo you want to know if someone used YM on your computer while you were gone?
6059
Alot of times the name they use to post on here is thier yahoo id..also some people have their e-mail address listed here on their profile which you can access by clicking on the face,avatar,or pic(depending on what they are using) above their name.\nGood Luck
1089912
Hey, I thought Java was a crater in Mars... anyway, I get something like '....... is viewing me online' or something like that, and then i get logged off. Guess everybody gets different b*tchy messages from Yahoo!, just to be original.
1034514
It's seeing, emailing and IMing someone you meet online, i.e., on the internet!
582239
good question - this seems to be happening to a lot of people tonight!  I have 2 computers, logged off of one to then use my laptop and started getting the same message as you.  My friend, who I was IMing at the time, also got the same message, but she only has one computer to use!  I'm hoping you get some answers to this mystery.  Maybe it was happening because Yahoo is making some site changes?  I noticed the "Yahoo" page has a whole new look just over this evening.  Hmmmm
607639
In line. You are online when you are on the computer, and connected to the Internet. :D
858863
What's most probable is that either some aren't online, they're blocking you, or they are online and just put they're status as offline. You can get Blockchecker for MSN if you want to know if they're blocking you.