Your friend is wrong!!! I would go with the GFCI idea until you can rewire. It may be possible that you have a ground at the outlet, but I woould get an electrician to check it before assuming anything.

 

Friends who have NO clue about electric should not be giving electrical advice.

 

I have recently bought an older 60's home which has no grounded receptacles. A friend told me I could replace the old 2-wire outlets with grounded ones and just jump a piece of copper wire from the ground screw to the neutral on the new outlet and it would be grounded. I think I'm repeating his instructions right. Is this true, or should I replace the old outlet with a GFCI until I can do some rewiring? Is there any other way to do a pigtail and ground a non grounded outlet?

If you have bx with metal boxes you will have to test the metal box to see if it is grounded.If it is just buy some grounding pigtails(green wire with green ground screw). Attach the screw to the back of the metal box and the other end to the plug.

 

Ditto on the Donkeys advise!