One thing that caught my attention in the Y! Mail Blog post is that the status can be shared in an email you send to your contacts so they'll be notified of your current musings and what not.
As you can see, Y! Mail skyrockets the whole share-your-status deal by enabling you to 'share more' of your activity in other popular sites such as Twitter, Youtube, Tumblr, etc.
Picture from the Yahoo! Mail Blog
I tested a few of my username that I use in other sites, but found more than I wanted. Certain sites had users with my same username who had picked it first. Yahoo! allowed me to add them without asking for a password. The closest thing it does for a password is present you with a link to that site with your username so you can verify it's your site indeed. I guess Yahoo! Mail will ask for passwords in the future because I don't see how this is 100% hack-proof. Someone who knows my username and is bored enough to want to impersonate me can easily add my username and see all my activity, essentially stalking me in their Yahoo! profile.
Overall, the idea of including your updates in your email might come handy if you email your friends often. Yahoo! Mail status updates in emails just might be a little too much for other people you email, like people at work or school. Since Facebook and Skype are examples of how people have forgotten to use their emails to share stories and updates, Yahoo! Mail status just offers the convenience of sharing those through email, which you probably already use, so you don't have to hop on yet another browser tab or application window to communicate informally with your friends.
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