Finding your friends with Google Latitude, Join Latitude, Open Latitude

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.

Join Latitude

SWhile 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.

Open Latitude

After you join Latitude, you can open it to find your friends and view their updates.

SWhile viewing a map, press Menu and touch Latitude.

Invite friends to share their locations

After you join Latitude, you can start to share your location with your friends. Only friends whom you have explicitly invited or accepted can see your location.

1Open Latitude, press Menu , and touch Add friends.

If you touched Select from Contacts, a scrolling list of all your contacts opens. Check all of the contacts you want to invite.

If you touched Add via email address, you can enter one or more email addresses, separated by commas, of the friends you want to invite.

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 inviting them to sign into Latitude with their Google Account.