Controlling publication of presence information

In a computing system that provides presence information to a plurality of service providers that are configured to provide the computing system access to a plurality of networks, the presence information corresponding with a user's actual presence on the plurality of networks, a method for enabling the user to control the presence information that is provided to the plurality of service providers for publication, the method comprising:

• an act of providing a user interface in a user computing system, the user interface being configured to receive presence information of a user for each of a plurality of service providers and to display the presence information in one or more display frames of the user interface on a display screen;
• an act of simultaneously displaying presence information corresponding with a user's actual presence on each of the plurality of networks within one of more of the display frames of the user interface on the display screen;
• an act of enabling the user to provide user input at the user interface to edit the displayed presence information without affecting the user's actual presence on the plurality of networks;
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• an act of providing the displayed presence information to the plurality of service providers for publication.