![Invite a Friend to Chat](/images/backgrounds/2393/2393137x1.webp)
Once sign in is complete, the Talk main screen displays.
Invite a Friend to Chat
You can invite anyone with a Google Account to become your friend in Google Talk, so you can chat with each other and view each other’s online status.
1.While viewing your Friends list, touch Add friend.
2.Enter your friend’s address and touch DONE.
Your friend’s address in Talk is a Gmail or other email address that is configured to connect to Google Talk.
If your friend accepts your invitation, they are added to your Friends list in Talk and you can share each others status in Talk and other applications.
View and Accept an Invitation to Become a Friend
When a contact invites you to become a friend in Google Talk,
you receive a notification in the System Bar and the invitation displays in your Friends list.
1.Touch the invitation.
2.Touch Accept, if you want to accept the invitation and chat, Decline, if you do not want to chat with and share your Google Talk status with the sender right now, or Block, if you do not want to receive any more invitations from that person.
If you touch Accept, the friend is added to your Friends list in Talk and you can share your status in Talk and other applications.
Options While Chatting
There are several options that are available while you are chatting.
1.Touch to search your chats for a word,
to
invite another friend to chat, to invite this friend to
video chat, or to invite this friend to voice chat.
2.Touch Menu to display the following options, which are available while chatting. For more information, refer to “Additional Talk Options” on page 65.
•End chat: End this chat session.
•Go off the record/Stop chatting off the record: Set whether you want to stop saving your chat to the chat history.
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