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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 appears 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 want 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.
Touch
Chat Menu
to the right of the chat window. The
following options display:
• Go off the record/Stop chatting off the record
: Set whether you
want to stop saving your chat to the chat history.
• Friend info
: Display information about the friend with which you are
chatting.
Touch
View in Contacts
to view the friend’s Contact information.
Touch
Nickname
to create a nickname for the friend.
Touch
Show in Friends list
for these options: Always, Never, or
Automatically. Automatically determines whether your friend is popular
with you.
• Block friend
: Block a friend from sending you messages remove
the friend from your Friends list.
• Remove friend
: Remove the friend as if you never accepted their
invitation. However, the friend is not blocked.
Note:
If you touch the
Remove friend
option, touch
Add friend
Send
chat invitation to
,
to make the Friend visible again.
• Add to chat
: Select another friend to join in the current chat.
• Clear chat history
: Remove the history of this chat from your
device.
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