do you and DH share your locations on your phones?

Never felt the Need, never even discussed. Don't watch our teenagers either.

Don't you care about the gradual erosion of privacy rights and the creeping normalisation of tracking?

Why are we splitting hairs?

<playing devils advocate here> 😆

Only if there's a reason - long motorcycle trip, etc.

I would never allow Alexa in the house, don't have location on my phone unless I am using Google maps for directions and don't have video doorbell thingy on my door. I use these modern tools very carefully, as should we all I think.

Allowing another person to track your movements is not the same as using a sat nav. Yes, a digital footprint is formed but that isn't the same thing as a close relative/partner knowing your every movement. Ring doorbells/camera in the house I would feel exactly the same about (and I don't have them) no one needs to monitor me in my own home.

We share locations but we don’t know each other’s whereabouts at all times, only at specific instances. Which may be several times a day, or once every couple of months or so, depending on need.

Oh given over there was no need to bring cardboard suitcases into it. The poster below has given you an example of how to reopen to people who make different choices to yourself in a balanced polite way.

Then don't give up your privacy.

Feel free to use the compass and a map whilst the rest of us use satnav. You do realise that you are leaving a digital footprint whilst using satnav ... and what about that ring doorbell and Alexa.

So scary.

And yes to the pp who have said normalising tracking is very bad for people who use it for nefarious reasons e.g controlling and abusive partners.

I spoke of my parents generation as being the kind of actually resilient independent people who would put most modern people to shame, not my own generation necessarily. But nice condescending dig at the hundreds of thousands of hard working Irish immigrants who built lots of Britain's, roads, tunnels and bridges, who nursed in your hospitals, etc.

I wouldn't ever share my location with a partner as I find it weird. If others want to then great but I wouldn't as I would find it intrusive.

I’m simply telling you why we use it
in response to being asked and ridiculous vitriolic posts like yours. You have your methods we have ours. Get over it.

My dc are incredibly resilient, independent kids however we have technology we find useful that has an added bonus of tracking should they ever get into a dodgy uber or feel unsafe. They’re late teens.So I really don’t care two hoots what you and your cardboard suitcase toting family deem is ok or not.

Which knew modern life was so scary and dangerous that we need another adult or group of adults knowing our whereabouts at all times? No way would I give up my independence and privacy for the tiny chance that something would happen to me where knowing my exact location was the difference between disaster and otherwise.

Yes.

Both of us have pretty dangerous hobbies that we often carry out solo, but that we can’t often get to our phones easily to update. Just means we can watch each other and if we’re moving / have been actively recently it helps with the peace of mind.

I also travel a lot for work and it makes me feel safe someone has a ‘last seen’ account of me all the time, and from his perspective he can have a quick check in to see how far from home I am if I’m driving etc.

equally- if one of us wanted to stop sharing location it wouldn’t be an issue. For us it’s a safety thing.

@Cosyblankets DH can't call me if he's stuck in traffic and going to be late to collect DS as obviously it is against the law to use a mobile phone while driving. It's not about making tea.

@theleafandnotthetree exactly! They put on a nasty jibe but they don't like getting it back.

Typical! I'm such a good caring parent..... like you've said, lots of other things you need to teach your child.

Why bother with a phone call, which is distracting and potentially dangerous while driving, if a quick glance at your phone will give the same information with no risk to the driver or their passengers?

“Existing research shows drivers using either a hand-held or a hands-free phone are four times more likely to be involved in a collision, often fail to notice hazards – even when they appear directly ahead of them – and take longer to react to any hazards they do notice”

https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/research-changes-police-approach-to-hands-free-phone-use-while-driving#:~:text=Existing%20research%20shows%20drivers%20using,any%20hazards%20they%20do%20notice.

And there we go again, the 'if you don't have this you mustn't care about your children' jibe. What a load of nonsense. I care about their safety but as just one of many other things which are important like independence, privacy, ability to get themselves out of sticky (not necessarily dangerous) situations, and plain old growing up and acting like adults. I grew up in Ireland and people of my parents generation emigrated in their mid to late teens with just a cardboard suitcase to do hard labour in foreign countries and we are talking about people in their twenties agreeing to or much worse, wanting their parents to track them and know where they are. To my mind, that signifies a failure to launch whatever way you care to look at it.

That's how I feel too. I don't need to be tracked to facilitate meal planning!

@Magn01a agreed!

Yep, no issue at all.

And you’re criticising people for being rude? 😂Where has she said a family is perfect?

And who knew the world has to answer texts immediately not to be classed as rude.

Would love to know how immediate text replying works when you’re working and have busy lives.

@dontstopmenowimhavingagoodtime Why so nasty?

I've never even considered doing this but if some people benefit from it then fair enough

Why can't he just phone you?
I just don't get it.
All this getting dinner ready etc do you all eat the minute you walk through the door?
Does no one speak to each other any more?