online icon of contacts : question

Sometimes when contacts are online they show a couple of hyphens or one
hyphen after their name in the contact list , a "-" or "- -". what does this
mean?

Greetings,

Well the text after the - is the personal status message.

If there's multiple -'s, especially if they're blank, it's usually a song they're currently
playing with has invalid tag information attached and therefore shows up as blank.

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"Plainly Inquisitive" <Plainly > wrote in message
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> Sometimes when contacts are online they show a couple of hyphens or one
> hyphen after their name in the contact list , a "-" or "- -". what does this
> mean?