How do I invite people to join Gmail?Dave, I have an email account in gmail as myaddr@gmail.com but I'm still confused. I've been plugged into the Gmail world for so long that I forget it's a different experience for people just signing up for the service. Your first step is to log in to the service. Then, on your main inbox page, you should see something like this:  The fast way to do this is to enter their email address in the box and click "Send Invite", but there's an even easier way: every inbound message you receive has the following link at the bottom of the message display: Invite JohnDoe to Gmail Click on that link and you'll be able to invite your friend without even having to type in their email address. Darn convenient! The next window you'll see looks like this:  Click on "Send Invite" once you've fine-tuned the invitation note and you'll be helping your friends join our Gmail family in no time. Unless, of course, you aren't seeing the invite box at all, which means you don't yet have any invitations and just need to have the patience to wait a week or two (or possibly quite a bit longer: see my article Why can't I invite my friends to join Gmail?) before you start earning invitations. Oh! If anyone still needs a Gmail invite, please don't hesitate to ask me for one: send your message to me at d1taylor at gmail.com.
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Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader. this is not true...i have gmail...and no where does it ask me to invite anyone... Posted by: cathy at June 1, 2005 3:01 PMYou need to have your account for a while, then one day it'll just pop up with a set of invites you can send. In the interim, Cathy, feel free to ask two or three of your best friends to email me for invites and I'll get them hooked up! d1taylor at Gmail .. com Posted by: Dave Taylor at June 1, 2005 3:09 PMi want to invite me friends on my gmail account Posted by: Pawan Singh at June 3, 2005 8:51 AMi wanna invite you mani Posted by: ashwin at June 8, 2005 9:48 AMhai mani pl have an account in gmail Posted by: ashwin at June 8, 2005 9:50 AMplease invite me Posted by: budi purnomo at June 17, 2005 7:14 AMinvite me to join gmail plssssssss Posted by: rudresh kumar at June 18, 2005 11:26 AMI you want share gmail invites (as long as i have some) Just send an email to kamiware [at] gmail [dot] com Posted by: Knk at June 20, 2005 10:56 AMIf possible, would you please send me an invite to join gmail? Thanks a lot. Posted by: Bret at June 20, 2005 11:15 PMIf possible, would you please send me an invite to join gmail? Thanks a lot. Posted by: Bret at June 20, 2005 11:15 PMi am intresting to join the g mail send 2 invite to my mail. Posted by: hair rohit at August 17, 2005 4:26 PMHello - I really want to join gmail, but can't seem to get an invitation. Would you be so kind as to help a Wisconsin girl out if you have any lingering invitations? I'd be ever so grateful. I have hotmail, but it goes all wonky from time to time, and I do so love consistency. Thanks much for your consideration - I can't view the invitation tab: how can i invite my friends to get their own Gmail accounts? Posted by: venkat at August 22, 2005 9:31 AMIf you don't have the 'invite' box when you log in to your Gmail account, you need to have a bit of patience and wait. As a method of limiting spammers and generally keeping the system somewhat exclusive, Google doesn't automatically let you invite lots of people the day you join. How long will you have to wait? Not sure. I've heard from people who have had accounts for 3-4 months and still don't have any invitations. If it's just one or two of your buddies you want to invite, you can ask them to request an invite by emailing me: I seem to have lots of 'em. I'm d1taylor on the Gmail system. Posted by: Dave Taylor at August 22, 2005 3:35 PMHi, i have gmail cont but i cant send ivetes...y???? i want invite a brother..please...ricardorendeiro21@gmail.com...help me Posted by: Ricardo at August 25, 2005 1:30 PMhello, i didnot have a invite box in my gmail account yea how long untill u get the invite somebody box? Posted by: alex at September 3, 2005 1:41 AMkindly update my account for Invite Icon Posted by: balaa at September 8, 2005 11:01 AMcan i plezzzzzzzzzz join gmail pleazzzzzzzzz Posted by: vivesh at September 11, 2005 3:43 PMHere's a response for everyone here who believes that adding a comment to this discussion thread will result in my inviting you to join Gmail: it won't work. I'm too busy to figure out email addresses from comment postings and paste them into the right spot on my Gmail system (and I get a lot of requests every week too) Please note that I'm willing to invite people to join Gmail when I have available invitations, but I only invite those folk who send their request to me via email to my Gmail address, which is d1taylor at, you guessed it, gmail.com Hope that clarifies what's going on here. :-) Posted by: Dave Taylor at September 12, 2005 5:28 AMIf you want an gmail account simply leave a comment here in order to leave an email address to send an invite to: ive had my gmail account for ages now but i still havent got the invite a friend link. how do i get it?! Posted by: sazz at November 4, 2005 11:40 AMLate arrival but could someone invite me to join gmail. It sounds great and i'm going travelling and will need a big space size. Thanks very much Posted by: James Sneddon at November 18, 2005 12:56 PMi hav to invite my friend . how i can do pls help me Posted by: ravi kumar at November 29, 2005 3:21 PMdo your send invites build up? Posted by: andy at December 20, 2005 11:16 PMAs far as I know, Andy, there isn't any accumulation. You start at 50 invitations (eventually) and then I've been bumped up to 100 invitations available, and it replenishes pretty randomly. Posted by: Dave Taylor at December 21, 2005 7:39 AMi have the gmail invite box - i got an option of inviting 19 people - the problem is that every time i try to invite someone, and they go through the process of making an email, the gmail service says that the invitation was invalid. what's going on? i got the invite box right away, and it says that the invites are being sent out-the problem is that although they say the account has been created, when you try to create one again using the same usrname, they say that the name has already been used in an account - one that we already made (apparently). when the person tries to login, the account is invalid. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON! PLEASE HELP! Posted by: reshmi at January 2, 2006 1:52 PMThat's a very strange occurance, Reshmi. I would suggest that you try to contact the Gmail tech support team and see what they have to say about the situation. Posted by: Dave Taylor at January 2, 2006 9:45 PMi have 15 gmail invites . i have been using gmail from 5 months and i dont have a single invite pass wat shold i do to get it Posted by: arun at February 19, 2006 10:51 PMi do have a gmail account since quite a long time i do have a gmail account since quite a long time Dear Selwyn, I HAVE 30 GMAIL INVITATIONS .IF ANY ONE WANTS THEN PLEASE EMAIL ME .josephliton@gmail.com Posted by: josephliton at April 11, 2006 4:23 AMi was invited to gmail but when i try to invite someone els i'm getting the a message that i don't have no invitation option and it will be send to me at a later date, but this was about a month ago, please send me your advise Posted by: unclelove09 at April 16, 2006 9:07 PMive had my gmail account but i still havent got the invite a friend link. how do i get it?! Posted by: vandana singh at April 27, 2006 4:40 AMi have already got a g mail account and i am unable to invite my friends for g mail, i havent got invitation facility in by inbox. Could you helpo me?? Posted by: laxman at May 20, 2006 6:18 AMthere are no gmail invitations in my gmail account. I have gmail account.but i cant find the gamil invitation facility.but i want to send gmail invitations to my friends. for that what can i do??? Posted by: Meena at June 5, 2006 12:16 AMkindly update my account for Invite Icon Posted by: thara at June 12, 2006 4:52 PMkindly update my account for Invite Icon Posted by: thara at June 12, 2006 4:52 PMI have a gmail account, but don't have the invite option. Please update my account information. Posted by: KD at June 21, 2006 1:27 AMhiii plz update my account vd an invite icon Posted by: ankush at June 29, 2006 9:12 AMi have a gmail account.but,i want to send gmail invitations to my friends..if you have any..send them to me...thank you very much Posted by: elijah at July 14, 2006 1:25 AMif you need a gmail please send a simple mail at my mailing address : harshsteno@gmail.com Posted by: HARSH at July 14, 2006 2:26 AMive had my gmail account but i still havent got the invite a friend link. how do i get it?! Posted by: Kishore at July 25, 2006 11:52 PMi dont find that option itself on my inbox page.... Posted by: yeshwanth at July 31, 2006 10:21 AMwhen did i get the invitation box and how many days it will take ? and how many invitation i may get? Posted by: mallesh at August 14, 2006 12:10 AMi have a gmail but ididn'get any invites so could you give me some thanks i didnt have any invite and i want to send some to my friends so i need like 10 can you send me some soon please thanks p.s and i dont have the options to invite so please send me some asap thank you Posted by: kaylie at August 29, 2006 1:44 PMi am not having invetes box on my gmail page , how do i invite friends Posted by: vedaant shourie at September 18, 2006 5:51 AMplease can you send invite for me because i cant see the invite box and i want to make other email for dad, thanks too much. Posted by: netboy at September 30, 2006 8:15 AMinvite me to Join gmail please ! Posted by: Joakim at October 2, 2006 7:27 AMI have 50 invites ! You can contact me and see if you could get one of them. MVH Posted by: Joakim at October 2, 2006 1:50 PMi have been using gmail since 3 months but i have not got any invitation box . Posted by: naveen at October 6, 2006 11:06 PMAny Gmail invites left please. Posted by: tedders at October 13, 2006 6:50 AMPls update my account.. I would love to invite a friends.. PLEASE SEND A INVITATION TO MY FREIND SURAJKNT@YAHOO.COM I AMM NOT GETTING INVITE BOX ON MY DESKTOP i have gmail application please send me know immedately please ok its ur gent Posted by: pratap_apk at February 8, 2007 9:52 PMIf you still have one available I would love to receive an invite to Gmail. Thank you talisair@yahoo.co.uk Posted by: Al at February 21, 2007 12:26 PMgmail Posted by: jason at April 8, 2007 12:53 PMI like join gmail because i is fun Posted by: Lukman306 at June 19, 2008 4:21 AMhi Posted by: sujeewa samarakkodi at December 9, 2008 7:32 AMssseeexx Posted by: gf at December 18, 2008 4:11 PMhaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Posted by: naveen taneja at May 3, 2009 9:06 AMits not working Posted by: arie at May 12, 2009 6:35 PMwaaaaaaaaaaaaaw Posted by: Tarek jlassi at September 26, 2009 12:43 PMI have a lot to say, but ...
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