How do you share screen with your buddies?

So I wanted to do something with my friends by screen sharing. We both have Mac and Messages. My friends said that we could use messages to share screen. When we try that, we couldn't. We can't select the "Share my Screen with  ......" or "Ask to share ..... Screen" We both are using Macs.Why can't we share screen.

Have you enabled System Preferences -> Sharing -> Screen Sharing?
If that doesn't get iMessages to allow you to screen share, you could try getting a free AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account and set that up inside iMessage.  I know the AIM servers will pass screen sharing requests.
If you cannot get this working, you could try an alternative such as TeamViewer.com (or at least until you figure out Screen Sharing via iMessages).

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