


You can also enter more information about the person, including his e-mail address and mobile phone number. When you want to add a new contact to one of these groups, go to the Edit menu and select "Add Buddy." You'll then be asked to choose a group for the contact. You can add new groups of your own by going to the Edit menu and choosing "Add Group." The default Buddy List groups are Buddies, Family, Co-Workers and AIM Bots (automated Buddies for movie times, stock quotes, et cetera). When you open AIM, you'll see a main window featuring your Buddy List broken down into different groups. Your Buddy List is the organized list of IM contacts stored in your account. AIM will then give you the option of adding these screen names to your Buddy List. AIM will automatically search your Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail and Microsoft Outlook accounts for contacts who also have AIM screen names. The first time you open the AIM software it'll ask if you want to search your existing e-mail contacts for buddies.
