Location services off in Find My Friends

I've gone to every location in iOS 8.1 where location services can be turn on and it's on everywhere. But when I go into Find My Friends itself the "Me" line has in red "Location Services off. If I touch "Me" (ok, let's not be juvenile) it takes me to the "Me" settings where I have "Share My Location" slider indicating it's on, but it's 'greyed' out. I got rid of the six other iDevices in the list as they are either gone or iPads without the SIM card. My wife and family use this extensively to track one another on road trips of which we do many, often alone.
Thanks in advance for the outpouring of wisdom, knowledge, and answer.
David
Oh yes, I am using a new iPhone 6 Plus running the latest iOS, 8.1. Love the phone. Not so thrilled with the settings being in six different places for the same thing.

My problem was as described by DavidHeady on 11-7-2014. In Find My Friends > Me, the Share Location slider was ON, but grayed out and unresponsive. Here's what it took to fix it on iPhone 6, current OS: Settings > General > Reset > RESET LOCATION AND PRIVACY. Both the Reset choice and Reset Location and Privacy are at the bottom of their respective pages (iOS 8.1.3). Of course you then have to go to all the appropriate places and enable Location Services, Share Location etc.

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After updating from iphone 5s on IOS 7 to iphone 6 on IOS 8, Find My Friends is stuck not sharing my location.
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