When you are from the 90’s.. you would surely know the value of an Yahoo Messenger. In those days, the word messenger has meant only Yahoo messenger. But with the changing times few other messengers such as Facebook and WhatsApp began to attract the customers. Yahoo though enjoyed the privilege of loyal customers has failed to update its service. Result! Yahoo is now shutting down the messenger service. You will have six months time to download your data from the messenger. However, the yahoo mail would continue. You can also access others accounts such as Facebook created with your Yahoo id.