Empathy status in user menu (was: How to work with GNOME3?)

["W. Martin Borgert" <debacle debian org>]

On 2011-06-13 16:57, Andrew Wood wrote:
> On 13/06/2011 16:45, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> >There are menu entries "Available" and "Busy". When I'm working
> >at the computer I'm obviously busy, so what are they good for?
> >Can I make these menu points go away?
>
> Its the Empathy status. Im not sure if its now possible to strip
> Empathy out of Gnome, but I hope it is because as much as I love
> Gnome 3 I dont think anything of Empathy and would like the ability
> to do away with it.

I purged Empathy from my system, but the entries are still
there. Anyway, I believe this status information should be
only there when Empathy is currently running, right?

Any ideas on how to get rid of the Empathy status?