Merun Zerbino

If they ar elogged into the normal viewer would they be able to see my Instant messages or would they also have to be on the social networking part of SL?

I really dont know if this particular thread belongs here or not but I couldnt really find a propper place to put it, and since this isnt really a technical issue I dont think the help page will do me much good. You see, since moving into my dorm at my college I have come to find out that the internet actualy restricts me from logging into SL. I even have a program called hotspot shield to allow people to get around these sort of interet restrictions but not even that is helping. I don't relaly care a whole lot about logging in to walk around or itneract with my avitar, I'm mainly concerned about not being able to talk to my friends. Is there any way to talk to your friends without having to log in? I've tried SLite but that seems to have the same issues as just logging in does. Thank you for any help that can be given.