Are you looking for a quick way to detect whether one of your Yahoo Messenger buddies is ACTUALLY offline or just Invisible? Apparently lots of people would like to know how to detect whether someone is invisible or not! I only realized this because I’ve been asked 10 times! I’m still not sure why it would matter because OBIVOUSLY your buddy doesn’t want to talk to you otherwise they would not be invisible!
But either way, I guess some people just need to know for the sake of knowing (especially guys and gals who want to know whether someone is avoiding them).
So here’s 5 ways I found on the Internet that you can use to discover whether a buddy is really online and set as invisible or whether they are simply logged off.
Invisible Scanner - Does just as the name suggests, finds those invisible folks and exposes them for who they really are! Worked on my tests.
Buddy Spy - The other two services mentioned above were web services, but Buddy Spy is a little program that you can download and install on your computer. It suggests that it’s “simply the best in invisible detection”! I’m not so sure about that, but I’ve heard it works most of the time.
Xeeber.com - Another online service to detect invisible users, but I am putting this at number 4 because it didn’t work when I tried it. Maybe the site was down, but entering and name and clicking search resulted in nothing happening! So maybe it was just bad timing by me because some people swear by it!
BuddyCheck - Another program that you can download and install, which will show you exactly who is online and who is offline. This is the only one that costs some money, about $20, so if you’re REALLY crazy about finding out if someone is truly invisible, this is the app for you!
Test it first on yourself or a friend to see which one works best.