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AUG-2.0.0-100 Android User’s Guide
Finding your friends with Google Latitude
Google Latitude lets you and your friends view each others’ locations on maps and
share status messages with each other. In Latitude you can also send messages and
emails, make phone calls, and get directions to your friends’ locations.
Your location is not shared automatically. You must join Latitude and then invite
your friends to view your location, or accept invitations from your friends.
To join Latitude
S While viewing a map, press MENU and touch
Join Latitude
.
The first time you join Latitude, you’re prompted to accept or reject the Google
privacy policy.
Once you’re joined Latitude, the menu item changes to
Latitude
.
To open Latitude
After you join Latitude, you can open it to find your friends and view their
updates.
S While viewing a map, press MENU and touch
Latitude
.
To invite friends to share their locations
After you join Latitude, you can start sharing your location with your friends. Only
friends that you have explicitly invited or accepted can see your location.
1 Open Latitude, press MENU , and touch
Add friends
.
2 Touch
Select from Contacts
or
Add via email address
in the menu that
opens.
If you touched
Select from Contacts
, a scrolling list of all your contacts
opens. You can check as many Contacts as you want to invite.
If you touched
Add via email address
, you can enter one or more email
addresses (separated by commas) for the friends you want to invite.
3 Touch
Add friends
at the bottom of the screen.
If your friends already use Latitude, they receive an email request and a
notification on Latitude. If they have not yet joined Latitude, they receive an
email request that invites them to sign in to Latitude with their Google Account.