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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.
Talk Options
There are several options that are available while viewing
your Friends list and some that are only available while you
are chatting.
1. Touch to search your Talk messages or the current
message for a word. Use the on-screen keyboard to
enter a search term. Touch on the keyboard to
search your Talk messages.
2. Touch
to invite another friend to chat, to
invite a friend to video chat, or to invite a friend to
voice chat.