Invisible for all in Skype but not for specified contacts

Question

do you know if it is possible to stay invisible on Skype but specify a list of contacts for which your status is visible? A sort of whitelist contact group.

Answer 1

It's been requested for years on the Skype forums, but currently, this is not possible to do.

Your current options include:

• Creating an entirely new account and only adding in the contacts from your original that you wish to contact you whenever.
• Set yourself as "Do Not Disturb" and hope those you don't want to talk to won't talk to you while you're set at that status.

Answer 2

I don't know of any selective status display, but as an invisible user you can still receive calls. Your caller just won't know beforehand whether you're "on" or not. When they attempt a call it will either ring or report "User is not online".
You could either let those few people know when you've signed on via Skype IM, or tell them you're staying invisible and to try anyway. (Obviously this only works if you're willing to have that select group attempt to call anytime; if you're going to change by whom/when you want to be called when invisible, you'd need a true whitelist.)

Answer 3

Block them temporary, by right clicking on the user > click Block this person. you'll see as invisible and don't get messages.When you unblock, you can get messages all messages above(with block time messages)

Answer 4

I don't know specifically about Skype, but typically you can just block people you don't want to talk to at the moment. I do this with Windows Live Messenger all the time. They never know the difference, and you are free to unblock them any time to chat.

If you are looking to still be able to chat them up while still invisible, then this probably wouldn't be for you.