Geoloqi does not have a way to “friend” people on the network. Instead, Geoloqi takes a different approach to location sharing which more closely models real-life relationships.
Traditional social networks allow you to either be friends with someone or not. On Foursquare and Google Latitude you request permission to follow someone and then you see all of their checkins and location. Flickr has a tiered structure where you can mark people as a contact, a friend, or family. However, neither of these models accurately represents real relationships.
Respect the temporal nature of real-life relationships.
It is useful to share my location with a client I’m trying to meet at a coffee shop. However, I would never friend a client on Foursquare or Google Latitude. I wouldn’t necessarily want a client to know where I am all the time. On the other side of the coin, I also wouldn’t want to see where a client is all the time if they shared their location with me. Their location is only relevant to me if we’re trying to meet.
To more closely model the real relationships we have with people around location sharing, Geoloqi allows you to send an expiring link. You can set a time limit when the link will no longer show your updated location. This is a more accurate way to describe your relationship with your client: your client can only see your location for the 30 minutes leading up to your meeting.