lets all share our locations with someone

[cannonballz]

specifically while wondering around in a holiday destination on our own, but generally, really at all times. I go birdwatching, or camping, or running, and my son has my location tracked on my phone. My daughter goes on nights out, and I know where she is. My son goes to festivals, and his father can track him. Basically, all of us can be found by at least one relative, if anything unexpected happens.

Surely, most people carry phones, and surely, this function is one of the major benefits?

It’s so common in my circle. Me and about eight girlfriends all share locations, plus me, my mum and sister and nephews.

No thanks. Don't want people knowing which bank I'm robbing or where I'm hiding out

We don't routinely but I have DH on find my friend since he had an unexpected heart attack at Christmas and he spends a lot of time alone in remote places. DS2 gets me to add him when he's travelling in case he loses his phone as DS1 lost his in Croatia although I'm not totally sure it would actually help lol

No I wouldn't always want to share my location or know my other family members locations

Fuck no! There is no way I am going to spend my life being tracked. If I get attacked and die so be it, tracking wouldn’t have helped. If I get lost in the woods (very unlikely) and nobody finds me and I die so be it. If I lose my mind and start rowing across the Atlantic then just let me be.

No way. I like some privacy. And if someone attacks me the first thing they'll do is throw the phone away. I don't track my kids either. And absolutely not my partner

Sadly many abusive relationships started off seemingly caring

No. Absolutely not. Never.

I do not want to be tracked and traced 😡

No. Why? I'm a grown up ☺️

@CantFindMyGlasses3

"Sadly many abusive relationships started off seemingly caring"

Yes, but you can't live your life as if every relationship will turn abusive. There are legitimate safety reasons to share location with your partner, mum, child. I share my location with my closest family members as they do with me.

I have life360 now the younger dc have started going out and they can check if I'm on the way back from the office etc Ds21 put himself on it as well

Still no!

No thanks, maybe if I was going for a long walk alone, but definitely not all the time.

I don't want to be tracked. I don't even take my phone with me everywhere I go.

It's good to share awareness OP. Some don't want to be tracked, fair enough, but a good reminder to those of us who don't want to be trapped somewhere without anyone knowing.

Absolutely categorically no way do i consent to being tracked by anyone. I do have tracking enabled on my teens with their permission. But i have rarely looked at it as they are trustworthy and excellent at keeping in touch. I cannot track DH nor him me and i cannot think of any reason why i would need it for an adult.

You see to me, tracking means you're living your life as if you could be in danger at any moment...

I don't share my location with anyone at all, ever.

Depending on where you are (thinking about going walking/climbing/kayaking etc) there might not be mobile reception anyway. But it is a good idea to leave information to where you are going and when (approx) you'll be back for someone to know you're overdue and give a starting point for the mountain rescue, coastguard or RNLI. I also tend to message someone when driving remote places to say I've arrived safely, particularly if it's late at night.

Happy to have this activated on our phones but on the strict understanding we don't use it routinely we use it in an emergency/agreed circumstance only.

No. Never. It's completely creepy for someone to be able to electronically "stalk" someone. My husband and I would never dream of using this function. I often don't know where he is coz, guess what? He's a competent adult!

This lovely poster has said it all, and so much better than I ever could.

I hope that those saying it's the norm across their family, respect anyone new coming in, or changing their mind about wanting to be tracked etc.
It's there if someone wants to use it. My DD did walking through a wooded area in Poznań, while talking on the phone to me, as a one off. In MM case, as said, his phone was left behind. We'd find it smothering.

No way! I'm not being tracked by anyone!

I have location sharing set up as well as Garmin incident detection as I run alone, early in the morning, on trails etc. There have been a few incidents I've read about that have made me more cautious and one incident that happened to me so I'd rather at least my last location was visible. It also makes me feel safer walking home from station in the dark.