How to Find Gmail Status Online
- 1). Type "www.gmail.com" into the address bar of your Web browser.
- 2). Enter your login information and sign in.
- 3). Allow your Gmail account to load. You may notice that your contact list takes longer to load than your email.
- 4). Look under the "Chat" heading on the left-hand side of the page, where you'll find your contacts' various statuses. A silver dot means a contact is not online. Yellow means they are signed in but are busy or have been inactive for more than 15 minutes. A green dot means contacts are online, active and available.
- 5). Read a contact's status message by looking directly underneath her name. If she has entered a status message, it will appear in light pink lettering. Set your own status by entering a status message into the "set status here" field under your own chat name.
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