do you and DH share your locations on your phones?

[buggeroo]

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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> 😆

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

Apologies @focacciamuffin , meant to quote @MotherofChaosandDestruction there.

You should step away from this thread as you are getting irrationally angry and you sound nuts to be honest.

Your ability to debate with any intelligence has either never existed or you have lost it in your vitriolic anger.

The normalisation of allow location sharing/tracking doesn't bother me.

A fairly close family member asked DH for sharing and he said no as they had no business needing to know where he was. However he has found it useful for me to have his and him to have mine.

I can't be responsible for how others might abuse that trust in their relationship. If someone doesn't want it for whatever reasons than that it their right. I share with DH because it's useful to me.

Really no one should need to justify their reasons and then be chastised for it on either 'side'.

@Whatacarrion not angry at all, but I am laughing at @blueshoes who has been on this for days, telling people they should have the app, and we are just making up excuses to not have it.

That one actually made me laugh, on this wonderfully sunny Sunday.

But of course her obsession with this thread is ok, because you agree with it?

How surprising 🙄

You don't seem to be able to engage with arguments just side swipes on hyped up points that are irrelevant. You might want to engage substantively with the topic rather than sniping about what people do with their time because that is the sure sign of a losing argument. I am sure you would like me to be quiet.

Mine was that bad I got the below card. But when travelling she posts the odd picture on FB. Which I've asked her to so I know she's alive.

My middle DD had the app for us to use when she used to go to quite rural Wales and went walking with my baby GC in a sling. Then she's used it in Poznań and similar when walking in the woods. We will definitely get an app for when my GC is at least 11-13. Other than that we don't have a need to use one.

No, but then we also have different operating systems so maybe we can't.

@blueshoes I think you're very over invested in this thread!

Entertaining admittedly but you've really got nothing better to do?

The amount of posts you've put on here is baffling.

No, never done that with DH or anyone.‘it’s beyond creepy and invasive, and very worrying it’s becoming the norm. It’s like a dystopian novel.

Agreed

@dontstopmenowimhavingagoodtime and your singling me out is not baffling? Nah, I decide how where and what to post with no need to justify to anybody.

It looks like you might have lost perspective and have become slightly stalkerish for you to be tracking my posts on this fast moving thread.

Oh wait!

Nope. Not for me. And I don't want to check his location either