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?

no, it does not always turn out there was nothing to worry about. It often does, but not always. I can remember at least one thread where tracking would have helped a lot, and others where it might have helped, but don't know.

Remember that thread where the babysitter had no idea what to do when the parents didn't return home after a night out? It took about 24 hours to untangle, and one had died anonymously and alone in hospital by then, whereas with tracking, he could have had his parents with him to say goodbye. The other was undergoing emergency surgery without her medical records

There is no way I would ever allow anyone to track me. I find the concept quite suffocating and I would reevaluate any relationship in which I was asked to do this. I also have no interest in tracking anyone else. I’m fiercely private and independent and cannot fathom being under this kind of surveillance.

I have my dds locations and they have mine.

for those of you who don't want it day to day, I don't bother then either, but I can't see why you wouldn't turn it on walking in an isolated place on your own. I turn it on before running, and I turn it on before going off birdwatching, even at home! No way would I go off alone in a holiday destination without tracking

I find it odd that friends track their friends. I wouldn't dream of tracking my friends, we're all adults. On occasions I've been out I've sent a message to say I'm home safely.

Children are different but we survived without being tracked and without mobile phones and we had kidnappers, rapists, terrorists just as much as now.

Aren't you still assuming there are family members involved, OP? Some of us have already said there isn't anybody around to fill that role.

I don't remember that thread, but surely the emergency contacts on a phone, which can be accessed without the pin, and id in a wallet like a driving license would have meant the hospital were aware who they were and allowed the police to alert the next of kin?

Well, I work outdoors and alone every single day of the week and it's genuinely never occurred to me that I should turn my location on.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

It just makes things easier tbh.

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

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.

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.

have you thought about it now? Will you do it now?

well, no, as I said earlier, population economics were different a generation ago- many more children did not survive, but many more were being born

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"...