HTC G2 manual Managing your Friends list, To add a friend to your Friends list

176 Google Talk

Managing your Friends list

Your Google Talk Friends list contains the friends you’ve invited or accepted invitations from, to become friends in Google Talk. Friends can invite each other to chat in Google Talk and see each others’ online status in Google Talk and other applications, such as in Gmail and Maps.

The Google Talk Friends list is sorted by your friends’ online status: active chats, online, busy, and offline. Within each status group, friends are listed alphabetically.

To add a friend to your Friends list

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 others’ online status.

1In the Friends list, press Menu and touch Add friend.

2Enter your friend’s address and touch Send invitation.

Your friend’s address in Google Talk is a Gmail or other email address that is configured to connect to Google Talk.

To 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 Status bar and the invitation appears in your Friends list.

1Touch the invitation in the Friends list.

2Touch Accept in the menu that opens.

Or touch Cancel if you don't want to chat with and share your Google Talk status with the sender.

To view a list of pending invitations to friends

SIn the Friends list, press Menu and touch More > Invites.

All the friends to whom you’ve extended invitations to become friends on Google Talk appear in the list until they accept or cancel your invitation.

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