I have the find my iphone app and I lost my phone and want to use it but how?

I have the find my iphone app and currently lost my phone and I am at work and would like to use the app now, but how?

brandt_2009 wrote:
I think I still have like 4.2.2 features, but I know I downloaded it to my phone I'm at work but now I don't know how to make the app work from my work computer. Is the iCloud account like the apple or iTunes account?
iCloud is Apple's new online service, replacing mobileme - http://www.apple.com/icloud/.  The web account page is https://www.icloud.com/
Find my iPhone is a feature of iCloud - http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/find-my.html
And again, the downloadable app has nothing to do with making your iPhone discoverable by find my iphone.  The app is used by a device to find another device which has had the trackable feature enabled in its iCloud account settings.  Simply having the app on a device does NOT make that device trackable.  In order to be able to find a device, you need to have an iCloud account on that device, and you need to enable the find-my-iPhone setting under that account - nothing to do with the app at all.

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