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The Contact List: Find, Add, Invite Friends & Manage Your List

ICQ Contact List

The Contact List is your list of contacts and friends with whom you can exchange messages, URLs, files, voice chat and others. Before you begin using all these fun options and more, you first need to add friends to your Contact List.

Access Your Contact List from Anywhere

From the release of ICQ 2001b, the Contact List has been saved on the ICQ servers. If you already have ICQ on your computer, your Contact List will be uploaded to the server automatically when you download the latest ICQ version.
You can access your Contact List from any computer or wireless device, anywhere in the world.

Manage your Contact List

Use these two buttons above the Contact List to manage your list according to your needs:

The Online/Offline button lets you choose if ICQ will display if all your contacts are displayed or just those who are online.

The Groups button lets you to divide your Contact List into groups to more easily manage your list.

The ICQuick Shortcut bar (available by clicking My ICQ, the Shortcut Bar (ICQ Quick) option, then Show) is an easy way to access ICQ functions. ICQ comes with this bar as a default on the right side of your ICQ window. If you want to make it even more convenient, you can rearrange or add more shortcuts.

Adding and Finding Users

There are two main methods available for finding users:

Adding Users - Find a specific user when you have some existing information user such as Email address, name or ICQ number.

Finding Users - Use the ICQ Meet People directory to find users using a wider range of criteria such as interest, hobbies, country or occupation.

Adding Users

Click

to open the Add/Invite Users window.

Once ICQ is up and running, you can add friends and other ICQ users to your Contact List. You can search for ICQ users by:

ICQ number - If you know the user's ICQ number, use this field to conduct the search. You can enter the ICQ number using spaces. For example, 123 456 789.
Nickname, First or Last name - Search for users according to these parameters.
Email - Search for an ICQ user by his/her email address.
AOL Screen Name - If you know the screen name of an AOL Instant Messenger user, you can search by his/her screen name.

Finding Users

Click

to open the Search the ICQ Meet People window.

This option allows you to search for specific ICQ users using a wider range of criteria than Adding Users or find a group of people that have similar interests. Some of the fields you can search by are names, email, location, gender, language, company interests and keywords. For example, you could search for males in Brazil between the ages of 40-49 who like martial arts and speak English. You can also ensure the results only contain online users.

Following-up an Authorization Request

When you attempt to add a user to your Contact List, you sometimes require the user's authorization. If an authorization request has not yet been accepted or rejected, you can use the Request for Authorization Follow Up Service. This allows you to check on authorization requests you sent to other users you want to add to your Contact List. You can set ICQ to automatically re-send authorization requests and to send such users an email requesting their authorization.

To check a user's authorization status:

From the Awaiting Authorization group in your ICQ, right-click the user's name.
Select Re-Request Authorization to automatically resend the authorization request now and (by default) for every seven days until it is accepted or rejected OR
Select the Auto Request Authorization Remind to choose either to stop sending requests or to send a request to the user.