lets all share our locations with someone

Exactly.

It’s what texting is for.

Heck no, if I was doing something inherently risky like climbing a mountain or on a boat at sea then I'd take a radio or sat phone or whatever. Not for daily life

I dunno. It all seems very militant! I prefer just going with the flow. Dinner doesn't need to be on the table as soon as everyone walks in the door surely?

If I need to know where DS is I just call or text. No biggie.

I am sorry that happened to you. And maybe it was flippant of me to use the term nothing to hide.
We use it for very basic things like:

1. When to put the pasta/spuds on so it’s ready for all coming home as you can see them on the move
2. If husband is on way home from work and could lift a kid from activity. I can see if he can get there or if I need to go
3. collecting kids from friends houses we don’t know -just follow directions on find a friend when they phone to be collected
4. When we lose the phone somewhere in the house
5. I travel a lot for work and work weird hours. Kids can look where I am if I am in the building I was working in they don’t call, if they see me on the move they call.
6. kids bus from secondary school is very hard to judge so instead of me sitting 25 minutes waiting I don’t leave the house until I to see they are at a certain point and then I arrive to pick them up when they get to our village. (Before anyone come at me it is 2.5 miles from home on a dangerous B road with no pavement that I wouldn’t walk myself)

I don’t use it for fear of someone being kidnapped or tracking where or why someone was somewhere.

What I do think tracking is giving us, is massively increased anxiety in society

I absolutely agree with this - it's so unhealthy to be able to track another person 24-7. Both DH and I go off and work alone and in rural areas and it has never once occurred to either of us to use any kind of tracking device!

I'm an adult, I don't want to be tracked, I'm happy to take any risks associated with that.

The risks, IMO, are much lower than many people seem to believe, and even if something were to happen, whether accident or crime, by the time it became relevant/anyone checked, chances are it would be too late for anything helpful to be done even if I were being tracked.

What I do think tracking is giving us, is massively increased anxiety in society in general, and infantilisation of people, not just teens at an age where they should be gaining more independence, autonomy & responsibility.

And I think the DV/controlling aspects are surprisingly widespread and should not be underestimated.

@cannonballz nope.

Me and DH share our locations with each other, as we are out and about outdoors a lot. He likes to run at night, I like to take long cliffside walks. Both of us easily can end up in a ditch somewhere, at least we will always know where to look!
Location sharing is not like "instagram", you do not have notifications that the person has moved from one location to another. It is not even updating instantly most of the time, or very accurately. What it does, it gets you "last seen" location or a radius on a MAP, not "your DH just left co-op with a six-pack of beer"...

For goodness sake. You interfere with the lives of total strangers?

I go on holiday by myself several times a year. I see no benefit in people being able to track my movements.

In greek media (who also have got a picture with a cicle over the body, class act there!) it says he was found on rocks near a beach. They suspect that for whatever reason he tried to get to the beach by a steep/difficult path. He was found by a group of reporters, who were on a boat taking pictures/videos of the area the rescuers were meant to go today to check, but they have to go back and really zoom in to be certain what it was. Sad news, who knows what happened, did he trip, did he get overwhelmed by the heat? His poor family, but at least they can lay him to rest now, I was worried he might be lost at sea and they'll never get an answer.

I've never shared my location and can see no point in doing so.

I only do it when i'm abroad with other people and we've gone separate ways.

It just makes things easier tbh.

Not for me. I'm always forgetting my phone anyway

I don't have a phone 😂 nor does DH. I'm mid 30s and he's 40s. We have a landline 🤷

There seem to be conflicting descriptions - near a cave, in a cave, near a fence.

You're probably right. I also wonder if some people don't communicate as they don't want it to end in a row and ruin their plans - so they just say nothing and deal with the fall-out afterwards.

Yes I completely agree.

I do wonder if the tracking is just a substitute for communication, which is most likely going to end up in drama because they can’t communicate properly in the first place.

Unfortunately it didn't. I'm surprised it took that long to find him, given how small the island is and the amount of manpower etc involved and all the drones. He must have been quite far off track and in a remote location where they had no reason to suspect he'd be!

nobody should use it if they don’t want to. DH and I have eachother as he does big bike rides and if he fell off or had a heart attack or something Id know where to find him, and he has me because I’m a real one for leaving my phone at a cafe / in the library / in a park so if we’re out together I can see where it is on his and go get it back…

Maybe three times a year I check where he is if he’s driving back from somewhere and I want to know if it’s time to get dinner on, no idea how often he checks on me and don’t really care. But I agree with pp that I would never ever let a casual relationship, or god forbid my mother, see where I am

Nope. And I wouldn't. I don't even like Ring doorbells if they can see you coming and going.
And no, I'm not up to anything! Just independent.

I don't walk in isolated places on my own.