Dave, this is driving me crazy! I’ve been on Gmail for almost a month now, but I still don’t have an invitation box: how can I invite my friends to get their own Gmail accounts?
This is one of the most common questions I see, actually. I’ve written quite frequently about Google’s Gmail service, including the most relevant article to this question: How Do I Invite People to Join Gmail, but i haven’t talked much about how Google doles out invitations.
First off, let me say that when you get a Gmail account, don’t expect to immediately get invitations so that you can invite your friends and associates to get Gmail accounts too.
I believe that there are two reasons for this reticence on the part of Gmail: First, they cut down significantly on spammers spawning dozens of fake email addresses by simply making it slower to get accounts (versus hotmail, for example, where you could spawn a few dozen addresses in an hour or less), something I’m glad about.
Secondly, thought perhaps it’s a bit less relevant now than it was when the Gmail service first appeared, Google can keep a bit of mystery, a bit of perceived mystique, by having the Gmail service be a bit exclusive. Since you can’t just sign up and get an account, it makes having a Gmail account more cool.
Be that as it may, if you’ve just received a Gmail invitation, this still leaves you probably more than a bit frustrated when your pals ask for their invites and you can’t send any. The bad news is that I have heard of people who have had to wait 3-4 months before they see their first invitation box:
The solution? Probably just to have some patience with the service. I wouldn’t be surprised that using Gmail more would get your invites to show up faster too, though I have no proof of that.
Finally, if you have just one or two friends who are desperate for an account, they are welcome to email me, asking for an invitation, as I seem to get a good quota from Google every week. Ask them to send requests to d1taylor at Gmail.
How can I make a friend on gmail please tell me.
I want to make friend.
dear dave
one of my friend sent me invitation gmail but can,t accept it pls help me!
thanks
hi.. i have gmail account.. i dont have invitation to invite my friend.. plz help me..
hii.. i am using gmail account for long now and i am still not able to invite my friend.. could you help me..
i have using g mail since last one year i was not able to send an invitation for my friends plz give me access invitation
i haven t sent invetation even to 10 of my friends but now i am not able to send any of the ivetation. What can i do now ?
hey i have an account in gmail. but i dont have an option of intiving my friends. what should i do now?
hi.. i have gmail account.. i dont have invitation to invite my friend.. plz help me..
invitation box mising in my inbox, kindly tell me how can i get that invitation box back to my inbox
i dont have a invite friend box, how do i get that, plz give a single solution/answer pleaaaaase
thanks
hello i have gmail account.but no invite option.i have been using gmail last 1 year.
Hi, I want invite a friend option
Hi dave,
I got 15 invitations in my invitation box.. After i was sending 10 invitations , there i have 5 more.
But in the last week i found that i missed my invitation box. how can get back my invitation box
please give me an instruction.
Hi
I am using gmail for more than one year.
Still now i am unable to send a invitation.
What went wrong in this
Hi,
I have a account in gmail and i can’t invite my friends and i have pasted the request long back and i’m tired requesting for it i didn’t expected this from the google i know you are the biggest search engine and there are lots of other jobs than this but please look at this and how come i know when i can invite my friends..
Thanks
Hi,
When will the invitation box will appear in my account because my friends what to know and how come i know after sending the request it will be implemented and how come i’ll know about it
Thanks
The service is really execellent,congrats.
gmail should give an invitation or two every month or two months atleast to their current users , or infact the ones that use it quite often: regularly
I have not find ant invite link or windows in my gmail account. how i invite to my friends to try out gmail.
how can get invite soonest.
please suggest me
sunil sparsh
hi.. i have gmail account.. i dont have invitation to invite my friend.. plz help me..
hi! you don’t know me as well as i you, but u’ve helped me a lot!!!
I’ve been having 2 gmail accounts that are at least 1 year old. Just after I registered my accounts..I had the invite window available and I sent invites to my pals…the more invites I was sending the more I was getting back.A few days ago I noticed that the invite window disappeared.I haven’t invited someone since a long time ago…but I don’t think that’s the reason…
pls give me avaliable things to invite my friends to gmail.
i have an account in gmail but i dont have option of inviting friends to gmail.what should i do now?
I have heard that there is an URL which provide gmail invitations. Can I have that address ???
hey i have an account in gmail. but i dont have an option of intiving my friends. what should i do now?
Dear Dave, I would like to have I nvite a Friend option on my gmail account.
dear dave i dont have the invitation box in my account so i cant invite any one. what’s the matter? what should i do?i need immediately. thanx
i wanna invite friend option
Would be great if you have another Gmail account available.
Thank you in advanced.
there are sites that give away gmail accounts thats how i got mine. just sarch google for free gmail account.
Hi Dave I really would like to have a Gmail account but it seems like google keeps changing the rules on me. Anyway I was reading your newsletter Ask Dave Taylor and you said to send you an email and you would help the guys friends to get an invite,well I’m not a friend of the guy who asked you for help but I’m goin to ask you anyway to help me get an gmail account. I know this won”t help me but I did buy your book Creating Cool Web Sites. rayshawn285@sbcglobal.net
Let me know if you need a GMail invite. I have plenty.
hey i have an account in gmail. but i dont have an option of intiving my friends. what should i do now?