Invisible mode for Gmail
If you have a few annoying people on your Gtalk, you will be pleased to know that there is an invisible mode available for your privacy needs. I personally don’t have a problem with telling people to leave me alone, but if you don’t have the heart to, this is for you.
Many people can use this to substitute their away messages. I know a few people who have varying degrees of away message severity, and they suffer a great deal of frustration, since inevitably some people don’t read these messages and bother them anyway. Invisible mode gets rid of this problem, if you really want to be away, while being there for the top 1-2 people, just switch to invisible and let the top people know you’re still there.
I would love to see a feature in messengers where you can actually select who can see you when you’re invisible. There are some instances where I want to be seen only by personal good friends, but sometimes it’s ok if other contacts drop me a line as well. It would be cool to exactly specify who sees what state.
Via the official Gmail Blog
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Is there no longer an invisible mode on chat? That was the greatest feature! Please let me know!
Hi Jamie!
As long as I know there is, I can see it in my Gmail account right now. It should be the fifth entry in the set status menu.
Dear Sir,
In my gmail chat, I do not have the faciity for making it invisible for some contacts. Please help me.
Hi Narashimha!
Do I understand correctly that you can make yourself invisible, in general, but some people still see you? I don’t know how it works in Gmail, but in MSN for example, people can still write to you if you’re invisible.
So they don’t see you online, but they write anyway. If you don’t answer they should have no way of knowing if you are online or not.
Please do reply if this helped or not, if it didn’t I can look further into the issue