Anyone not tracked via their phone?

[Bighouseinthecountry25]

As far as I know I can't be location tracked. DH and I can't track each other and I have Snapchat to keep an eye on my teens but I don't share my location. I don't have a particularly exciting life but I like to be under the radar. Surely I'm not the only one as it seems to be the norm. We all have androids as well so no fine my phone iPhone thing.

It's only from Mumsnet that I've discovered that there are people who think this is normal.

It would never in a million years occur to either me or my DP that we would/should want to track each other's location on our phones. None of my friends do it either.

What I meant was that my kids don’t even bother calling me to ask me to pick them up if they can see that I’m not home, I’m still at the office etc.

I still regularly get the calls asking to be picked up if they can see I’m home with the car, unfortunately.

I wouldn't imagine either DH or I would be the slightest bit interested in doing this. Adult dc who no longer live at home, so no teens to monitor either.

I do not track anyone, and no one tracks me.

I also choose not to track my teenage children.

I trust them instead.

I'm sure google tracks us all, but i certainly can't log onto an app to see where my family are, and nor can they for me.

I'd never allow myself to be tracked and I wouldn't track anyone else either. It just feels really controlling to me. I imagine it's great for all the abusive partners out there😒

I don't mind being tracked.

No, nobody in my family uses tracking. We've never felt the need, and I find it a bit creepy tbh.

No, we've never done it, and no Ring doorbells or the like here either. Tech of any kind barely used in this house, and DH can just about turn on his phone. I do remember friends of mine tracking their dc, but mine were outraged as teenagers that I could even see their journey histories on Oyster when I topped up their accounts.

We al have iphones and me, DH and 3 teenagers can all see where each other are. I dont think anyone is obsessively tracking each other (apart from the first time 15 year old DD and her friend got the train to norwich from here in wales to go stay with friends uncle and they had to do tube etc!)

it comes in useful when eg DS1 dropped his phone in a field and I could direct him to where it was and then play a sound, DH often if I am on a long journey time dinner for when I am due home, checking if kids school trip bus us nearly back from france at 3am for pick up etc etc

I am not tracked by anyone except Big Tech, as far as I know. And I don't want to be.

I used to work nights at a pub so I had my location on for my parents peace of mind (although I didn't live with them). I don't know if they ever actually checked it, but I deleted the app after I left that job.

I have a dumb phone. Problem solved.

DH and I can't track each other easily as he has Android and I have Apple, Google tracks him but not me.

No one who I am related to will ever have the right to track me until I am old and have dementia and need to be tracked for my own safety. Likewise I do not track my husband or my children. It is such an invasion of privacy.

Why don’t you like being tracked, but track your teens? Isn’t this distrustful?

Im not tracked and don’t have the slightest bit of interest in tracking my DH or kids!

I would hate this, my kids would hate this!

We don’t track, why would you? Never tracked dc either when they were at home. It’s creepy, big brother

The only actual sensible reason given so far is to track the dog.

People saying oh I can see when they’re home for dinner, see where they are on the way home from a school trip, gauge when to set off to pick up mum from the train, can know DD is at home so I can FaceTime. You’re kidding yourselves.

If it were true then you’d use the much quicker alternative of sending a text. Text me when you’re at X station and I’ll set off, Let me know when you pass Watford, I’ll be in at 6, we can eat at 7.

All these people constantly opening the bloody tracker app instead of just using simple communication. It’s like we’ve lost all sight of basic common sense

Nobody tracks anyone else in our family. Really creepy and unhealthy.

Same here. Partner and I both have location share enabled, it’s been handy once or twice if one of us is late or something but we don’t routinely use it. I don’t care about him technically being able to ‘track’ me.

I thought that people mainly used it for children under 16, not adults.

We don’t. I think it’s creepy and intrusive personally.

I don't track friends or family. Why would you? Creepy enough what we can't stop our phones/Google doing.

I - rather old fashionedly - term not doing this as observing netiquette but young people call stuff like this and finding out about people by looking for their FB/Insta pages stalking. Makes you really think what's not the right thing to do when you hear younger people call it stalking.

I wish I had someone who cared enough to track my phone
Of course big brother is watching us all but honestly if work - Aldi - Primark - gym and home is interesting to anyone then crack on

No-one tracks me. And for the times I go out all day and don't even take the phone with me, Google doesn't know where I am either, it thinks I'm at home.

My kids can track me (and vice versa) but me and DH don't track each other.