gmail chat invisible

Google added a new feature to Gmail Chats recently that allows users to change their presence status to “invisible”. When you set your presence status to Invisible, you will be appear as Offline to your contacts but you will still be able to chat with the people you want to chat with.

(At least that’s how it should work, although it never seem to work for me. Whenever I set my status to Invisible, my contacts will still be able to see me and be like, “No, you are ONLINE!”)

If you are using Gmail Chat and a desktop IM client at the same time, you will probably see a warning message when switching to Invisible: “Oops! You are not invisible because you’re also using desktop software that doesn’t support invisibility, such as Google Talk.”

i am invisible lolcat

I remember I poked fun at Harry Potter’s invisible cloak last week, can’t remember what it was though. Lulz.

[photo by Phoebe Epstein, used under a CC-license; via Google Blogoscoped forum]