I wasn’t feeling well so I went to bed at 8pm. I signed off my Yahoo IM on my computer and signed on with my iPod to say good night to my sister. I woke up at 12:20. I left my computer on but the screensaver kicked in.
I just checked my email. I have one, received at 12:25, from my sister’s boyfriend’s yahoo email address. It’s a 5 minute audio file. It took about a minute for me to figure out what’s on the file. It’s typing; The sound of someone typing. About halfway through, I clearly hear my sister clear her throat. There’s no way that was her boyfriend clearing his throat.
Now, a few questions.
My sister is using his computer but she’s logged on to HER yahoo name, not his so why did it come from his?
She doesn’t even know what yahoo voicemail is or how to send one. I don’t either. How do they work? I know you can use yahoo IM to call one pc from another one, my sister does it every once in a while while attempting to initiate an IM conversation. Even if she did know how to use it, she’s not logged on to his account so how did it come from him?
Is it possible it came from him, 2 hours ago when he was using his computer and logged on? If so, why would it just come through at 12:25? Does an email timestamp show when it’s sent or when it actually shows up on the computer? Since my screensaver was on, the email didn’t show up until I turned it off.
Yes, albeit rarely, an email will take a couple hours to post. But if you both are using Yahoo! email, that is very unlikely.
Are you sure the boyfriend might not have the stand alone Yahoo! Messenger program still logged in as him? Or that maybe she was looking through his email? (I’m not insinuating anything nefarious–some relationships allow this.)
Also, the fact that she was typing seems odd, as it sounds like she didn’t know it was on. I haven’t used either the website or the standalone program in a while, but maybe it’s easy to accidentally set up one of these.
If it was her, she definitely didn’t know it was on. She thinks it’s hilarious though. The only reason I think it was her was because it was definitely not her boyfriend clearing his throat. In addition to that, when I was listening to the typing, I thought to myself, that sounds like her typing, not his. She’s faster than him.
Well, she’s 300 miles away so I can’t say for sure what she was doing on his computer. But, she said that she was logged on to the yahoo messenger. Is it possible to have 2 people logged on at the same time on the same computer?
Yes–but not in messenger itself. They could be using two different accounts on the computer itself. But I suspect that is not the case here. It’s not something you can do accidentally.
But the other way is that you can log in as yourself in Messenger, but as someone else in YMail. But that doesn’t make much sense either, since you say she was logged in as herself in Messenger, which is where Yahoo! Voicemail seems to be located. (The idea seems to be that you try to send a voice chat, but they aren’t there, so you leave a message which goes to their email. But google Yahoo Voicemail yourself to be sure.)