Grayed out camera icon

A friend and I both have macbooks. I looked in my buddy list and she is shown as available. Her green camera icon kept going from green to gray and so on. What does this mean?

Hi SE G-Dog,
In theory, yes. In prcatice it depends on how in synch the AIM servers and the updates from them that you get are.
9:47 PM Sunday; October 22, 2006

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