Page 6 | do you and DH share your locations on your phones?

buggeroo · 2024-08-03T15:02:32+00:00

just curious really. DH and I have never done this, and I wondered if that is the norm?

Changingplace · 04/08/2024 09:20

oObyeOo · 04/08/2024 07:23

Texting whilst driving is also more dangerous than calling

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I never said anything about driving whatsoever, I was replying to someone saying her OH called her while she was out walking the dogs in the dark.

flaxensunshine · 04/08/2024 09:16

Magn01a · 04/08/2024 09:15

😂😂😂
Back at you. You’re not.

We are doing us. I’m not trying to convert you to our way or ridiculing your choices like you are.

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Keep telling yourself how happy you are…whilst checking where he is!!

VerbenaGirl · 04/08/2024 09:15

We do, plus two adult children and recently widowed MIL. We all like the information and security it provides.

Magn01a · 04/08/2024 09:15

flaxensunshine · 04/08/2024 09:11

Not over invested at all.

You do you.

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😂😂😂
Back at you. You’re not.

We are doing us. I’m not trying to convert you to our way or ridiculing your choices like you are.

flaxensunshine · 04/08/2024 09:11

Magn01a · 04/08/2024 09:01

People have coped for millions of years without all sorts of things we now have.

Reflection on society, weird….

I think what’s weirder is somebody being so over invested in other families choices.

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Not over invested at all.

You do you.

Magn01a · 04/08/2024 09:04

My teens asked us to set up Life360. They feel safer at night knowing we can see where they are. My son has just been travelling and working abroad for 3 months he really appreciated having it then.

There are so many other advantages too.

Magn01a · 04/08/2024 09:01

flaxensunshine · 04/08/2024 08:37

Everyone is entitled to their opinion but for me this is weird.Thats it. People coped for millions of years without the ability to do this. Its an awful reflection on society

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People have coped for millions of years without all sorts of things we now have.

Reflection on society, weird….

I think what’s weirder is somebody being so over invested in other families choices.

CurlewKate · 04/08/2024 08:58

@oObyeOo "
They’re less likely to get themselves in to bother… teenage frontal cortex can be a bit impulsive. They’re likely to think twice about doing stupid things if they know they’re being tracked."

Now that really IS weird! And illogical-because knowing where they are isn't going to stop them doing stupid things. And more likely to make them dump their phone....

TheBishopIsKillingMe · 04/08/2024 08:47

Yes

flaxensunshine · 04/08/2024 08:40

missshilling · 04/08/2024 00:02

Or is it that you just don’t want to know where he is because he might be up to no good. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be so worried about sharing your location.

Honestly! Have never heard of such paranoid nonsense.

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This doesn’t make sense? How am I paranoid

flaxensunshine · 04/08/2024 08:37

oObyeOo · 04/08/2024 08:32

Nobody is saying it’s weird not to do it… you are the only one berating people for their choices

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Everyone is entitled to their opinion but for me this is weird.Thats it. People coped for millions of years without the ability to do this. Its an awful reflection on society

oObyeOo · 04/08/2024 08:36

Copperoliverbear · 04/08/2024 08:33

I would but we do not have the same type of phone, I share with my kids.
It's not that I'd want to know where he is at all times, but would just look to see if he was on his way home, so I could start the dinner ect. X

Life 360 can be used across different phones

Copperoliverbear · 04/08/2024 08:33

I would but we do not have the same type of phone, I share with my kids.
It's not that I'd want to know where he is at all times, but would just look to see if he was on his way home, so I could start the dinner ect. X

Changingplace · 04/08/2024 08:33

blueshoes · 04/08/2024 01:41

What's your point? If there was no location tracking, wouldn't you be even more inclined to call? So are you against calling each other as well?

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I was replying to the poster saying her OH calls her when she’s walking the dogs alone in the dark because she’s spooked, if you’re feeling vulnerable and then you’re talking on the phone rather than being aware of your surroundings you’re making yourself more of a potential target.

Monkeybutt1 · 04/08/2024 08:33

oObyeOo · 04/08/2024 08:27

They’re less likely to get themselves in to bother… teenage frontal cortex can be a bit impulsive. They’re likely to think twice about doing stupid things if they know they’re being tracked. Plus it’s more for the benefit of the parent… piece of mind.

My 10yr old will be taking herself to and from school on her own come sept. It’ll be nice for me to be able to check each morn that she’s left the house on time and arrived.

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The other week DS who's 11 had left his phone on DND after school, he'd WhatsApp'd me to say he was going to his friends but it hasn't sent and he's not noticed. When he didn't come home I could use Google location to see he was at his friends then text his friends mum to make sure all was ok. If I didn't have that it would have meant trying to ring around friends mums to find him.

oObyeOo · 04/08/2024 08:32

flaxensunshine · 04/08/2024 08:17

Not at all. Track away.

just gave my opinion which I thought was the point of this?

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Nobody is saying it’s weird not to do it… you are the only one berating people for their choices

Dulra · 04/08/2024 08:32

No never thought about it but my dh cycles everywhere, he hates driving, so I do see the benefit in checking where he is because sometimes I do worry if he's taking longer than normal

oObyeOo · 04/08/2024 08:30

flaxensunshine · 04/08/2024 08:05

I don’t agree that they are good valid reasons.

its just weird. People saying i know when he/she will be home FFS what bullshit, you are insecure and tracking all day. Just cook dinner and if they are not there they can heat it up!!

how on earth do you think people managed years ago!!!

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Of course people managed it in a different way years ago. Times change and technology moves on… I’m grateful I no longer have to wait for the dial up code on the internet now, that I can check train times instantly and also o ow where my dh is when he’s out in the mountains.

Monkeybutt1 · 04/08/2024 08:30

flaxensunshine · 04/08/2024 08:20

Yeah who you trying to convince

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I don't have to convince anyone. I was trying to give a balanced adult view.

oObyeOo · 04/08/2024 08:27

CurlewKate · 04/08/2024 07:40

@oObyeOo "There are 15 pages of people explaining the practicalities and benefits"

Which can be summed up by "it means I can have dinner on the table"

I want to know how it benefits children to be tracked.

They’re less likely to get themselves in to bother… teenage frontal cortex can be a bit impulsive. They’re likely to think twice about doing stupid things if they know they’re being tracked. Plus it’s more for the benefit of the parent… piece of mind.

My 10yr old will be taking herself to and from school on her own come sept. It’ll be nice for me to be able to check each morn that she’s left the house on time and arrived.

Magn01a · 04/08/2024 08:23

flaxensunshine · 04/08/2024 08:20

Yeah who you trying to convince

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Convince who about what?

Mermaidsarereal · 04/08/2024 08:22

I have no reason to. I have an app on my DD phone that shows me when she has left school and is walking home which is shared with DP but I don't feel the need to know where he is (mostly because he's either at work or having a crafty pint!) But I understand everyone's needs are different.

Magn01a · 04/08/2024 08:22

flaxensunshine · 04/08/2024 08:17

Not at all. Track away.

just gave my opinion which I thought was the point of this?

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You didn’t just give your opinion.

We don’t track. I don’t have access to my phone during the working day for one thing, certainly not insecure and prefer to eat together not that when to serve up dinner is the reason we use it although it’s useful.

flaxensunshine · 04/08/2024 08:20

Monkeybutt1 · 04/08/2024 08:19

Why is it BS just because you don't agree. It works for us, we are all happy with the arrangement and no one is forced into it.
Just because you don't agree with it, it's weird and BS?
If people don't want to share locations thats up to them and their right, if people do then likewise.
If I want tea on the table for my husband and 11 year old when he gets in late and starving from his club then that's up to us and it works.
If I take him to his club then my husband does the same.
It's not weird, it's not coercive it's just what works.

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Yeah who you trying to convince

Monkeybutt1 · 04/08/2024 08:19

flaxensunshine · 04/08/2024 08:05

I don’t agree that they are good valid reasons.

its just weird. People saying i know when he/she will be home FFS what bullshit, you are insecure and tracking all day. Just cook dinner and if they are not there they can heat it up!!

how on earth do you think people managed years ago!!!

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Why is it BS just because you don't agree. It works for us, we are all happy with the arrangement and no one is forced into it.
Just because you don't agree with it, it's weird and BS?
If people don't want to share locations thats up to them and their right, if people do then likewise.
If I want tea on the table for my husband and 11 year old when he gets in late and starving from his club then that's up to us and it works.
If I take him to his club then my husband does the same.
It's not weird, it's not coercive it's just what works.