Finding your friends with google latitude, Join latitude, Open latitude – Samsung Android 2.3 User Manual

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Maps, Navigation, Places, and Latitude

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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.

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.

When you’ve joined Latitude, the menu item changes to

Latitude.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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
inviting them to sign into Latitude with their Google Account.

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