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How To Know If You Are Blocked On Gtalk

Like in all the popular instant messaging tools, there is an option in Google Talk (or Gtalk) too to block an annoying contact so that he never shows up again on your list.

Now, blocking a contact on Gtalk or the in-built chat tool in Gmail is pretty simple as you will see in the screenshot below, however the process of finding out if one of your contacts has blocked you isn’t straight-forward.

This article discusses two methods to help you find out who’s blocked you on Gtalk.

gmail-contacts

As you can see in the above screenshot, blocking a contact takes just one click. Now lets discuss the methods that help you uncover the contact who has blocked you.

1) With the help of Pidgin

Pidgin is a multi-chat IM tool where you can configure and use various instant messaging tools such as Gtalk, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN and many more. You can download Pidgin here.

Configure your Google talk account in Pidgin. Login with your Gmail account. Now go to Buddies > Show> Offiline Buddies in Buddies list window.

pidgin-offline

It will display all the online and offline contacts in your list. Now right click on the name of your friend whom you suspect of blocking you and select the “Get info” option from the right click menu. It will open a buddy information box which will show you the status of your friend.

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If that person has blocked you in Gtalk then you will only see the status of that contact instead of full profile information (you will not see name and photo of that contact), as shown in screenshot below.

buddy-information

2) By Sending Voicemail

In Gtalk you can send voicemail to any person anytime whether he is online or offline. If the person is offline then voicemail should appear in the inbox of that person.

To send a voicemail click on any offline contact. Now click on “Send voicemail” button as shown in screenshot below. If the recording starts and ends suddenly then it means that the person has blocked you and you cannot send him a voicemail anymore.

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So those were the two methods which you can use to find out if you’ve been blocked by a contact on Google Talk.

Did you find the article useful ? Do you know of any other methods ? Any cool Gtalk tricks ? Share them in the comments. We’d love to learn from you.

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Written By and published on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010.


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  • http://www.ampercent.com Amit

    That would be very useful. Great trick !

    Will the voicemail trick work if we use the browser version of Gtalk?

  • http://www.guidingtech.com Himanshu

    Nice question Amit. There are two known methods for using Gtalk in browser. If you are talking about Gtalk inside Gmail then this trick works very well in it.

    If you are talking about Google talk gadget (http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/popout) then this trick doesn’t works inside it.

  • http://www.ampercent.com Amit

    Yeah…I was talking about Gtalk in Gmail. Thanks for the share !

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  • http://www.askpcexperts.co.uk/ Mark Warne

    Thanks for sharing valuable information.

  • MissesBlahBlah

    This is too funny… It actually works! I tried the ‘download pidgin method’ and it was very easy. I suspected he blocked me after I facebook defriended him.. But it turns out he only blocked me from making comments on Youtube, and not gmail. Well, it doesn’t matter anyhow, because I found out via the network that he “Mark Zuckermanned” me and blasted me on FB shortly after I defriended him, in a childish, weaka$$ effort to feed his ego. So he’s made a fool of himself and crossed over into the Land of No Return with me. ha. :)

    Good info, here; keep it up!

    ~MissesBlahBlah

  • landside

    Hello,
    I want to get some information.. I know that one lady checks the gmail each day. But why i cannot see her online never? I also tried to check wether she has blocked me. And it says no…
    I am using Pidgin to sign in to my gtalk account… And I am leave it for all 24 hours. But I still cannot see when she is online, or what time she been the last tie. Could you tell me why?

  • GTalk

    Thanks a ton mate! Really appreciated…This solved so many questions for me! :)

  • Buemount

    impressive with good logics

  • Invinciblesingh10

    if full name is shown and image not shown then person has blocked or not????

    • http://www.guidingtech.com Abhijeet Mukherjee

      if previously the image was there when you looked it up in pidgin, and now it doesn’t show that then it is likely that you have been blocked by that person.

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