Motorola DROID 2 Global, Manual

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CHAPTER 19: Finding Your Way With Maps
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Location Sharing With Latitude
Google’s Latitude service is a way to let your social network know where you are. You
can use it to make sure people know you made your flight, or let your contacts know
you’ve got a trip in their city.
Currently, you can only share information with mutual
friends, which means you must invite your friends to
share Latitude information with you, and they must
accept the invitation. You can also use the Latitude
service from a laptop or desktop computer, so it
doesn’t depend on everyone owning a phone. You
have four global choices for sharing Latitude location
information:
Detect automatically:
You just let
your phone report where you are to
your friends.
Set your location:
You can
manually update your location (and
lie about where you are if you wish).
Hide your location: Nobody sees
your location, but you can still see
your friends.
Turn Latitude off: Your friends
can’t see you where you are, nor
can you can see where they are.
Keep in mind that your friends are the only ones who can see any of this, and settings
for individuals will override global choices. When Latitude was initially released, there
was concern that someone could be stalked by having this feature turned on without his
knowledge, so you may receive an email letting you know you’ve joined Latitude or that
you have turned on location tracking.
To add friends to your Latitude account from the Google Maps app, take the following
steps:
1.
Press the Menu button.
2.
Tap Join Latitude .
3.
Press
Menu
.
4.
Tap Add friends .
5.
Choose to add a friend through your contact list or by the friend’s email
address.