Find my friends notify me button couldn't be clicked?

Ok so me and my girlfriend have the iPhone 5 so obviously everything is up to date on ios6.
I set up find my friends on both our phones at the same time in the same way
She can find me and when she clicks on me she can use notify me without any problems.
I can also find her location without problems but when I go to set up notify me the button is greyed out and I can't click it
I tried to use it with one of my friends and I could use notify me with him without any problems!
Both my phone and hers are set up with the exact same settings and I literally held them side by side and all setting are identical
What do you think the problem could be?

I have found the solution.
In order for person A to be able to click the 'notify' button to be alerted for person B
Person B must be signed into the same icloud account they are using for find friends.
You can't be using one apple ID for icloud and another apple ID for find friends.
It appears this service uses iCloud for the geofencing side of things.
I have tested it on my iphone 4 & 5.
Please let me know if this solves your problem.

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