Are you into “location sharing”?
Posted by Objectively_Seeking@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 771 comments
I work with a bunch of Gen-Z folks. Among their friend groups, they all share locations. They like to look at the maps and see where people are. And sometimes they show up in those places. For instance, Jayden sees Aiden is at the food trucks, so he heads over there. Or Hazel notices Antoine is not where he said he was supposed to be!
This is considered normal, acceptable social behavior. Am I right that doing (and admitting you did) this in our generation made you controlling or stalkery? I do understand how friends use it now for safety—like to check on another friend who’s on a date—and that makes sense. But overall I feel pretty bleak about the degree to which we’re trading our privacy for temporary benefits.
I just really can’t think of a situation where I’d want even a friend to show up uninvited. Maybe I’m an outlier? Ok thanks for listening—I’ll now return to my grouchy introvert Gen-X cave.
JauntyShrimp@reddit
I HATE IT
Old_Dealer_6941@reddit
i'm 32 and share my location with over 400 friends, family members, colleagues and more. it enables me to share so much without ever taking my phone out of my pocket. i only use bump though, wouldn't trust or use any of the other apps.
Parlava@reddit
Never! I blurred out my home on google 🤣. I hate all of this shit. We've gone too far with technology on phones.
wonder-bunny-193@reddit
WTF? That is quite literally my nightmare.
Does that mean their friends will know both when they arrive on my lawn and when they are ordered to get off it?
Appropriate_Answer_2@reddit
No, I can't imagine. Some of my millennial coworkers do; one turned his off because he was engagement ring shopping and didn't want his girlfriend to know and she texted him and asked why it was off. That just seems to add a whole other level of suspicion into life that I don't want to deal with. Maybe if I ever went solo hiking or vacation for safety but not on a daily basis
oopswhat1974@reddit
I feel like (my opinion only) the people who have location on their spouses/SOs are also the people that share one social media account, and also that come to Reddit and post "so we always answer each other's phones and have each other's passwords and I happened to check a message alert on his phone while he was in the shower" and that's how she found out he was cheating.
"Not that she SUSPECTED anything" of course, but because they've never hid stuff like that before.
I get it (location) for traveling purposes, safety etc - but not for every day. I've been with my husband for nearly 15 years and wouldn't ever answer his phone/check his messages. I'm just like "hey you got a text alert" or if it's ringing "so and so is calling".
Mierkatte@reddit
Same here. Been married 23 years. I don’t want ANYONE to know I’m parked and feeding my face Starbucks while drinking my second latte and filing my nails and listening to podcasts and sometimes just taking a nap. lol.
oopswhat1974@reddit
Hi are you me 👋🏼
Mierkatte@reddit
👋
GuiltEdge@reddit
I need it otherwise I would be constantly messaging them "When will you be home?" And of course they wouldn't respond while they're driving.
Now I can see they're about 20 minutes away so we can start getting dinner sorted.
rowsella@reddit
Why not just call them? I mean, these people probably have handsfree phone service on their cars.
GuiltEdge@reddit
First of all, who calls anyone anymore? Second, no. Old pos cars. And jobs that make it difficult to just take a call.
Much easier to open app, see they're still at work, hold off on dinner. Or open app, see they're X minutes away and not piss them off by hassling them.
NoTrashInMyTrailer@reddit
But if they're end time varies by hours, you're checking your app for hours a day. Seems more efficient to spend 30 seconds to send a text.
GuiltEdge@reddit
You can set it so you get a notification when they leave a location or get within a certain distance.
BigConstruction4247@reddit
Don't people text to say they're on their way or give an ETA?
GuiltEdge@reddit
Every day? Hell no. Finish work, go home. Don't want to hang around telling everyone what they're doing first.
BigConstruction4247@reddit
Hang around? If you leave at just about the same time every day, it's 3 letters. "omw". Texts have a time stamp.
GuiltEdge@reddit
Yeah doesn't work when ending times vary by up to 2 hours.
BigConstruction4247@reddit
Then send a text while walking to your car.
Harlequin80@reddit
Nah. My location is shared with my wife and hers with me. We don't share social media accounts or answer each others phones or anything like that.
But the ability to check to see if she's driving back from dance with the kids yet so I can start dinner is super useful.
PlainNotToasted@reddit
Yeah that wouldn't work for me.
Where's are you?
Walking the dog.
You're at the bar.
I...
Don't start, I just got the loyalty text.
Harlequin80@reddit
I don't actually get relationships like this. If I or my wife went to a bar neither of us would blink.
With the exception of if it was when we were meant to meet up and one of us is at a bar instead.
I've been married 17 years, I've never once had a loyalty text or anything similar. And I've certainly never sent one.
I also don't think I've ever looked where she is except when I am specifically waiting to meet her. Open maps, quick look to see how far off she is, let's me know if I'm ordering her drink or not yet.
If you or your partner are monitoring each other and questioning what you are doing to this degree it points to other issues imo.
All that said, based on a huge amount of the comments on this thread, perhaps we are the odd ones out.
PrisonMike44@reddit
Or you could just remember when dance is over and not be a creep
StanleyQPrick@reddit
Right. Or she could sand an Omw text
PrisonMike44@reddit
That would be too easy. I like the part where he says the class ALWAYS runs over in all caps but he still needs to know exactly where they are even though it ALWAYS runs over. They probably just have trust issues in their relationship
LeftwingSH@reddit
Or they can do what makes them happy, judgy mcjudgerson
yviebee@reddit
Or they can do what works for them.
Harlequin80@reddit
Does everything your kids do always finish on time every time? Never runs over, never have a delay? Fuck me that is amazing!
You thinking that being able to look where your wife is to make life easier is being a creep says far more about you than me.
PrisonMike44@reddit
Does dinner have to be done the second they walk in the door? Dance class especially never runs over. They don’t make money keeping your kids late for free
Harlequin80@reddit
My kids dance classes ALWAYS run over. Their dance school is ridiculously hardcore (something I didn't know when I signed them up when they were 2 and I now can't get out of without breaking their hearts), and running over by an hour is not uncommon. And when dance finishes at 9pm on a week night, then yeah I'm wanting them to eat as soon as they get home so they can get to bed as quickly as possible.
My 14 year old is doing over 20 hours a week of dance, and so time efficiency is critical.
PrisonMike44@reddit
EggWeekly7444@reddit
My husband and do the same ✌️
localjargon@reddit
Me too. We don't stare at it all day, in fact it only comes up when there is a reason to use it. Plus we aren't going anywhere crazy, we know where eachother is most of the time.
It's helped me track my phone down and find my husband at a crowded event.
peacemomma@reddit
Same, it doesn’t feel creepy, just useful. Also safety - I have a college age daughter. It gives me peace of mind knowing she made it home or to wherever she’s staying safely. I don’t care where she goes or what she’s doing, just that she’s safe.
BostonBruinsLove@reddit
Exactly this! I wanna know when he’s heading home and this way he doesn’t have to remember to text me.
Beth_Pleasant@reddit
Yeah my husband and I share our locations. It's helpful because I WFH and he goes to the office. So he'll text me when he's leaving and I can check progress so I know when to start dinner if I am cooking that night.
We went on a vacation with another couple and it was helpful to share locations with each other so we could meet up for lunch, or whatever if we'd been doing different things.
StonedGhoster@reddit
This is the primary reason I even check her location. Kids, sports, work, busy busy. And she has a bit of time blindness. That allows me to get dinner started so she and the kids can eat when they get home.
Freakishly_Tall@reddit
Yeah, separate phones, separate non-phone devices, separate computers, separate accounts. For everything. Private passwords.
When I die, evvvvverything goes with me.
The notion of spouses just sharing everything scares the shit out of sysadmin-me. I should probably make a point of making noise about that at work.
LilJourney@reddit
Eh - we have separate accounts but I know all their passwords, just because they prefer for me to do the "computer things". They know where I keep mine written down just in case they ever need/want them.
That said - neither of us have tracking apps or ever check the other one's phone or social media. We could - but why bother? We routinely hand them to each other to see pics of the grandkids, check out a funny, etc.
We're best friends, been through life/death together over 25 years and hoping for another 25 more.
I trust (and have trusted) them with my life - why would I guard my passwords?
Freakishly_Tall@reddit
Eh, to each their own, but as two professionals, we have shitloads of info the other cannot see, so being able to say, "no, I have no way to get into their systems at all" is a nice backstop should there ever be an issue.
Then again, I do dangerous shit for fun, so I have trusted infinitely (literally) more people with my life than with any of my passwords, but decades of sysadmin time probably colors my perspective there: Ain't nobody gets root.
Agent_Pendergast@reddit
Family account password managers are great for this. All of my personal/work stuff is private to me. Stuff we share (Netflix, credit cards, etc) have a separate shared section we can both access and still remain secure and then she has all her private stuff in a separate vault. It's really handy and cuts down on "hey what's the password to fill in the blank".
SirkutBored@reddit
why do I feel like I stumbled into the middle of a Mr and Mrs Smith scene?
Freakishly_Tall@reddit
Loooool. Thanks for the hearty laugh this morning. Definitely needed it, and likely the best of the week, maybe month!
Wish it were that exciting. (... he tosses in as a quick cover, maybe?)
SirkutBored@reddit
If it was exciting you might not have passed the psych test ;)
Glad I could lend a chuckle and that you picked up on the reference.
oopswhat1974@reddit
Right? But it's not like we have anything to hide, it's just...private
OutrageousTie1573@reddit
Yes! I don't want to keep secrets but also..sometimes I google embarrassing things, or take pictures of my teeth to make sure I don't have food in them at my desk😂. As for location I don't care where my boyfriend is or what he's doing. Not that I don't love him it's just that it's nothing to do with me, if he needs me to know he tells me. My young daughters 16 and 15 are on life 360 with me, mostly just because they are new drivers.
Freakishly_Tall@reddit
Well, nothing to hide in personal life. Lawyers, senior IT, consultants, doctors, C-levels, etc, all certainly do have things to hide. I'm starting to scare the hell out of myself thinking about Kids These Days not having boundaries.
As for the original topic, I can't imagine location sharing. But I'm allllmost jealous of kids who don't see it as a source of anxiety (like I would) but, instead, as a source of love and support and camaraderie... and I'm sure that comes from growing up with it... but it still seems like child abuse to me to MAKE your kids use it.
irishgator2@reddit
Dude, we were at happy hour with a few couples and all the moms were like ‘let’s see where (our college age daughters) are right now !!’
I’m like “No, STOP! Thats ridiculous, just don’t!!”
Of course they still did. Jesus
magster823@reddit
That drives me nuts. Most of my daughter's friends have to location share with their parents. She's 19 now, and the only times we've used it is when she's gone on dates with someone new, with her full approval.
I'm so glad I didn't grow up in this day and age. My parents probably would have wanted me to share all the time, and that would have made all the sneaking around I did so much harder! Haha
Freakishly_Tall@reddit
Shitfuck that's ... I dunno... some kind of horrific combination of terrifying, infantalizing, insulting, pointless, and more.
I mean, I would REALLY have liked to have known where either of my parents were when I was home alone as child and they were late, but the reverse? After about, I dunno, age 14?, that's just fucking surreal.
sactownbwoy@reddit
Not a sysadmin but my wife has horrible password hygiene and never remembers her passwords. No way in hell am I sharing my stuff with her so she can lock me out of my stuff 5 days a day.
I feel the same way, when I die, my online stuff goes with me. I always joke it will take the NSA for her to get access to my various devices.
SparklyRoniPony@reddit
My husband and I will NEVER share a social media account, but we do share location. My 13 year old daughter is required to share her location, but my 21 year old son does not, and as an adult, I wouldn’t expect him to. The others have explained the myriad of reasons why people share with their spouses. It never occurred to me that someone would equate it to shared social media accounts, lol.
reindeermoon@reddit
We have ours shared for safety. Like if I'm taking the subway home by myself at 11 p.m., I want someone to know where I am, and vice versa.
I know I could just turn it on every time, but it's easier to just leave it on.
We don't share social media accounts or read each other's messages. We know each other's passwords for emergencies (we're old, one of us might have a sudden heart attack, and the other person is going to need to access financial stuff or whatever), but I've never looked on my husband's phone or computer.
BayouVoodoo@reddit
Nope. We share locations but seldom use it. No particular reason, we just want to. We have separate socials and although he’s told me his phone password at some point, I’ll be damned if I can remember it.
AccomplishedCicada60@reddit
My parents are in their 60s and 70s, my grandfather is in his 80s. They all share their locations with each other. Obviously safety, but if someone is at a place too long or a place they normally aren’t, say a hospital - we know right away.
foilrat@reddit
I have biometric access to her phone, and vice-versa. I think I've used it once when I wanted to look something up and forgotten my phone. I asked first, of course.
I'm home_IT, so I set up devices, networks, back-ups, etc, but I sure as hell don't go through her computer.
OldBanjoFrog@reddit
Andy Rooney (RIP) did a bit on 60 Minutes a while back about being able to disappear. It was quite enlightening
Famous-Height1287@reddit
My nephew’s elaborate, surprise proposal was ruined because his girlfriend kept checking his location. So she figured it all out. He was pretty bummed!
MMXVA@reddit
This is why I don’t use Venmo. I don’t wanna advertise that I bought pizza at such and such place and split the bill with Bill.
Mierkatte@reddit
You can hide that shit. It’s so weird people don’t hide it. So weird.
BillDuki@reddit
Hell No, and while we’re at it, read receipts are also turned off!
Every-Cook5084@reddit
Yep. I wish I could disable typing indicators too
Mierkatte@reddit
Me too!!!!!!!!
Albert_Im_Stoned@reddit
Like in iMessage? Because you can disable that
Every-Cook5084@reddit
No you can’t. You can disable read receipts but not typing
Albert_Im_Stoned@reddit
I meant you can disable iMessage. You just have to learn to love the green bubbles
Every-Cook5084@reddit
Ah but after apples latest iOS update the green bubbles now have read receipts and typing indicators too!
Albert_Im_Stoned@reddit
Noooooo!
anon-aus-42@reddit
I type in notepad and quickly copy-paste. Of course, my status is offline by default.
321Native@reddit
I keep read receipts on ONLY for my spouse and kids. It just saves the need for a reply if one isn’t needed. Otherwise OFF.
sactownbwoy@reddit
Haha, I'm the same. Partly why I switched back to Android. When I first started dating my wife, she asked me to get an iPhone, had it for a couple years and then was like nope, don't like the OS and don't need to be sharing my location with her all the time. Wife and step-kids are all on iPhone and share each other's locations, even the 28 year old.
I like my privacy and don't need you knowing where I am 24/7 or seeing if I read your message.
Mean_Fae@reddit
Yes.
Grand_Taste_8737@reddit
I share location only with my immediate family members.
throwawayfun10000@reddit
Hell no. I'll (45) come home when the street lights come in, thank you very much.
818488899414@reddit
You had street lights?
BeenzandRice@reddit
Location services turned off. Always.
HighOnGoofballs@reddit
And read receipts
No one needs to know how long ago I read it before I actually replied
Freakishly_Tall@reddit
And the ringer.
HighOnGoofballs@reddit
My 74yo MOM got mad I don’t answer the phone lol. I told her that shit is always on silent
Klutzy-Spend-6947@reddit
I’m trying to get my 78 year old parents into texting. It’s a challenge, lol.
mookypop@reddit
I’m lucky my 87 yo Mom texts! She can’t hear worth a shit so texting is her thing now in the last 7-8 years! Doesn’t always respond in a timely manner but that’s cool.
furrina@reddit
My 87 year old mom texts like a champ also.
QueenWitOfTheWeb@reddit
You are so incredibly lucky to have her and know she wants to talk to you however she can. I love this.🥰 Be sure to save these texts someway, even if it's just screen shots. Then you'll have your conversations forever, regardless if you change phones.😉🤍
mylocker15@reddit
My 80 something mom has the basic jitterbug flip phone. She refuses to learn how to turn it on and barely realizes you have to charge it even when you don’t use it. She has some sort of psychological block regarding cell phones I swear.
I’ve thought of getting her the smart phone for seniors but she won’t even figure out the flip phone. She also refused to try and learn the tablet I got her when she was recovering from something. How do people get their parents to try technology?
She reads email and goes online a little but it’s mostly whatever dumpster fire Yahoo is these days. Only because I get her an email account back in the days when they were reputable. Sigh.
Sumpskildpadden@reddit
At 80, there’s probably not much you can do anymore.
I got a Commodore 64 back in the mid-eighties and my dad took an interest in it. He was unemployed for a while and spent that time in the computer, playing games and learning Basic programming.
My mum wasn’t into computers at all but had to learn a bit for work, and I helped her understand it by speaking in office terms that she understood. She got a PC from work to use at home (no internet yet, just floppy disks to transfer documents).
I dumped the internet on them when I moved abroad in the late nineties. Just bought them a subscription and installed a browser and email client. They were highly sceptical but a month later they were both hooked.
Mum loved that she could email me, and dad set up is own web site in no time, started writing with people who shared his interest, and he bought and sold stuff for his collection on eBay. He also maintained and upgraded their PC, and segued into online games.
They’re both gone now but my dad kept learning and stayed interested until he died last year. But he caught the bug from me when he was 40, I guess. And he was already a HiFi guy.
Longwinded way to say it has to spark their interest somehow. Maybe a smart speaker/display such as Echo Show that grandkids can call? We got those during lockdown, and they’re easy to use.
Realistic-Explorer69@reddit
My 75 y/o mom wants nothing to do with texting so I have to answer her calls 😫
divinerebel@reddit
My mom doesn't even call me, because she "doesn't want to bother" me. So she waits a week or more for me to call her, then asks, "where have you been?" I keep telling her to call amd leave a message, it's fine. I've got my phone on silent, always, and won't bother me. If I'm available, I'll see her call and answer if I can.
She doesn't have a smart phone, so there is no texting to teach.
Useful-Badger-4062@reddit
My parents are the same- they have that weird Pavlovian generational obligation to always answer the phone no matter what. Because it could be the publisher’s clearinghouse calling to tell them they won a contest they never entered.
Daghain@reddit
Being able to silence unknown callers on my iPhone is quite possibly the best feature ever invented.
Useful-Badger-4062@reddit
Being able to silence any callers is a great feature to me. I hate talking on the phone. To anyone.
Sumpskildpadden@reddit
Right? Even in my twenties I never understood why my folks would jump up from dinner when the phone rang.
TriggerTough@reddit
Always!
Average_Random_Bitch@reddit
Yeah, hate that too, and if they can see me typing.
HighOnGoofballs@reddit
I care less about the typing thing
Average_Random_Bitch@reddit
On the list of bullshit stuff I wish wasn't a thing, this is admittedly low. But having ADD, there are times I'm like, yeah, this is a text, too many tangents. So I'd prefer to avoid the questions inherent with watching me type for 3 minutes but reply with, "IKR?!" LOL
mookypop@reddit
🤣🤣🤣
Average_Random_Bitch@reddit
IKR?
HighOnGoofballs@reddit
Has anyone actually ever asked you about that?
Average_Random_Bitch@reddit
Actually yes LOL
PixelFondler@reddit
Read receipts? Like looking at the receipts from a purchase after walking away from the register to make sure you were charged correctly? Or is this some kind of smartphone feature that I’ve never heard of before even tho I use an iPhone constantly?
HighOnGoofballs@reddit
When it shows you that they read your message. On iPhone it will say “read 1:15pm” or some such right below the message
PixelFondler@reddit
Oh that. I didn’t know it was called that. But someone else in this thread mentioned that a person can REQUEST read receipts; is that a special function?
ZetaWMo4@reddit
My daughter keeps hers on because she wants people to know that she read their text and purposely didn’t reply.
Even-Travel-7655@reddit
She chooses violence. 🤣
KissMyPooh@reddit
That's a GenZ phrase. stop it! Lol.
DasSassyPantzen@reddit
Very petty. I like it.
Objective-Amount1379@reddit
I've seen a preview of a text, went and turned on my read receipts to open their text and ignore it, then turned my receipts back off. Petty, yes, but enjoyable
The_Mother_@reddit
Love this
Junior_Ad_3301@reddit
This is like a stoic response. I can also still read them on my watch and the receipt doesn't get sent. That way I can decide if I want the receipt to go out or not.
summonthegods@reddit
This is next level.
HighOnGoofballs@reddit
Still way more info than I want to give them
Square-Section-8418@reddit
I get all stuck up about read receipts. (I have them on). Only once has someone got pissy with me over the time of a response. And I Let Them Have It. You don’t know what else I’m doing. You don’t know what other priorities I’m managing. You don’t know if I’m on the phone or presenting in a meeting. Get over yourself as I will respond when I decide that I am able to. PERIOD.
RbrDovaDuckinDodgers@reddit
It's nice to pop into this sub for a dose of sanity before heading back out into gestures wildly ...that
Pfft, I've never had bumper stickers on my rigs, incognito is the only way to go
spokansas@reddit
Every time I see a read receipt, I think "This person has a controlling, possibly psychotic SO."
LilJourney@reddit
Wait - that's a thing? And I can turn off the thing? Off to google how to do it ...
HighOnGoofballs@reddit
You had it on?
You’re banned from GenX, sorry
Busy_Pound5010@reddit
Yeah, “so and so has read receipts requested…” request DENIED.
HighOnGoofballs@reddit
I didn’t even know that was a thing but hell nah, that’s even worse
irishgator2@reddit
Me neither
GeoHog713@reddit
Same!
External-Dude779@reddit
I still use the ole "I didn't hear the phone ring" excuse
RCA2CE@reddit
When I go to the grocery store I leave my phone at home
When my kid goes with me, I make her leave it at home too
My wife always calls when we get to the stop with her shopping list and I don’t want none of it
Material-Dream-4976@reddit
Thank you! I leave my phone at home too. If I won't need it & won't use it, I won't bring it. I'm so sick of hearing people's FaceTime chats in the supermarket trying to choose their items by phone.
SirMellencamp@reddit
Ha! I get that. I finally had to make a rule that the second I get in the store no more items to pick up.
atxtopdx@reddit
And I’m over here “I’m about to get in the checkout line. Last call”
quiltsohard@reddit
This is the only time my family responds
SirMellencamp@reddit
Hell no. My trip to Sams is planned for maximum efficiency. In and out
Junior_Ad_3301@reddit
Sorry for your luck. My wife usually reminds me of something I've forgotten to put on the list. And when she does, it's nice! But that bitch always adds extra too.<--that last bit was a joke FYI!
catrules618@reddit
We use an app called cozi. It's a shared app for my family. We have a running grocery list and any of the 3 of us can add things whenever. The next person to go to the store pulls up the app and picks up whatever.
There is also a shared calendar we use so we know who has things coming up. Kind of essential with a teen. They aren't great with lead time on when they are going somewhere, need a ride etc
One of these days I'll convince him to get his license. In the meantime...
Junior_Ad_3301@reddit
We have the calendar thingy. The live doc grocery list is probably something we should try. Thanks!
triple-bottom-line@reddit
I use the ole “I didn’t care. I still don’t, but I also didn’t.” excuse
RandoScando@reddit
And this is why I appreciate escalators!
SomePaddy@reddit
Sorry for the convenience.
Sithstress1@reddit
I like vending machines because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes I will drop it so it achieves its maximum flavor potential.
Oatmeal_Savage19@reddit
Thanks Mitch - RIP
jkpublic@reddit
My phone's been on silent since the days when New York had twin towers.
xologo@reddit
I tell people I didn't get their text after leaving them on read.
mish_munasiba@reddit
My ringer hasn't been on since 2014.
Patient_Doctor4480@reddit
Especially when the ringer is off. Like on my phone. 😁
mummummaaa@reddit
Oh, gee. I must have touched the silent button!
Whoopsie!
/s
Y'all don't need to know where i am unless I tell you. Just like I don't need to know where anyone else is unless they're supposed to meet me 15 mins ago, at which point I just leave.
But I fully admit to embracing the grey, the wrinkles, and the cranky. Getting older is just fine by me!
GeoHog713@reddit
It's less of an excuse these days
Jer1968@reddit
My phone is always on silent.
Longjumping-Dress567@reddit
Mine too! Always
StepYaGameUp@reddit
So underrated.
GenXrules69@reddit
But so so nice/ peaceful / freeing
butcherandthelamb@reddit
Always. Hell, I barely have any notifications turned on and I always turn off haptics.
MiMiinOlyWa@reddit
Ohy, my notifications? All off, except my Libby app, 'cause I'll totally miss that a library book is ready for me to check out otherwise. 📖
My husband who is a super tail end boomer ( born in 1961- that often referred to as the Johnny Quest generation) has all his notifications on. That would drive me ape shit
Common_Moment6006@reddit
This is the truth. My Gen Jones friends 1958/61/63/64 are all notorious for doing this. I jump out of my skin from being startled by the constant notification sounds 😂
PrestigiousGrade7874@reddit
My gen z kids share with each other. And I have the locations of my two in college. My youngest kid is hounding me to share my location. Told him when I’m 70 and officially old and he’s officially grown. Them kids don’t need to know where I am. Can’t imagine any gen x that’s doesn’t have major health issues would be interested in this
iambusyrightnow987@reddit
Most of the time, my phone is turned off. I don’t need to be at everyone’s beck and call, and I certainly wouldn’t want anyone following me to my location whenever they want to.
LaDoucheDeLaFromage@reddit
Yep. Off for ever. single. app. Unless it's something that actually needs it, like GPS.
stuck_behind_a_truck@reddit
Bikes outside on the front lawn, however
ColoradoDanno@reddit
This is the way
Low_Cook_5235@reddit
It’s on for Me, husband and kids. Thats it.
hoppertn@reddit
Same for me but it is handy to check on where the kids are. I feel like a Narc every time I look though.
exscapegoat@reddit
Yeah don’t have kids but I’d only want to use that in an actual emergency
irishgator2@reddit
Always
furrina@reddit
What temporary benefits?
mayjhappy@reddit
Gen z who's into location sharing here! My friends and I initially shared our location for safety during a trip. We never turned it off. I absolutely enjoy it 🤸
Blackgurlmajik@reddit
SHARE MY LOCATION!!!!! GTFOH!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Nope, im an actual adult. If i see ANYONE i know while im out, it is purely by accident. Im not sharing shit. Least of all, where i am to people i work with. Im Gen X, i dont need any help hiding the bodies. That how you go to jail.😂😂😂
rowsella@reddit
It is only a secret between two people if one of them is dead.
Blackgurlmajik@reddit
EXACTLY!!!!! I dont wanna have to kill TWO people! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
rowsella@reddit
Way too much extra work, we are the slacker generation for crying out loud.
treehugger100@reddit
I share my location with my mom and vice versa. That is all.
OK_Tux_376@reddit
So I’m an 86 baby but my big bro was Gen X so I have a lot of Gen X tendencies. Anyways- I have location sharing with my friend group and a family members just because. It has caused issues in the friend group bc when our trouble maker turns her location off we’re all like “😐 where are you?” But we aren’t constantly checking in on each other either (at least I don’t think we are ?) my family has is it just so they can know where I’m at if they can’t get in touch (that’s on the off chance I’m somewhere other than church/work/gym or grocery store).
Puzzleheaded_Hat4556@reddit
I'm so happy and blessed that I got to grow up before these phones! It was fun to ride your bike around, and you would find your friends randomly. We were always outside and had great times.
Defendprivacy@reddit
Fuck that. Any responsible GenX knows where you are and what you are doing is nobody’s damned business. Not that I’m doing anything wrong, it’s just nobody’s business. I think the Gen Z’s need to understand the importance of privacy for privacy’s sake.
DanceLoose7340@reddit
I used to do this YEARS ago, long before it became a thing. These days I don't share my realtime location except with my wife as a safety thing since work takes me to some isolated locations at times. I do often post where I'm at on social media though if it's somewhere particularly interesting...
Honestly? I think it's wanting a closer sense of connection with their friends and peers. Something that seems to be getting lost in the noise these days, especially after COVID had us so isolated for so long. Some never really got over that isolation from a mental standpoint and are desperately trying to find ways to reconnect...
JJC02466@reddit
Fellow GenX introvert here. I love the idea of staying in touch with (close) friends this way, in theory. I have friends who live on opposite coasts and they use it to stay connected to family - e.g. “oh, Sally’s at the beach, I miss that beach!” Quite honestly, I don’t know how to share my location, and when i looked at it on my iphone, the privacy settings i had to give up were intolerable to me. So, yeah, I guess the GenX get-off-my-lawn crowd will have to text or call to find out where our friends are.. oh well…
Agile_Acanthaceae_38@reddit
I think it is obstructive AF and breeds all sorts of entitlement and ownership of other humans. My friend has it and she’s essentially an electronic prisoner to her family. Creepy
GuiltEdge@reddit
You would think they could manage that, wouldn't you? Nope.
MaryBitchards@reddit
I think I would've loved it. Big night of bar-hopping and you can quickly see where your friends are hanging? Perfect. Would've really helped in college.
ChildhoodOk5526@reddit
Are you sure about that?
What about those times after leaving the bar when you 'decided' to drop in at Jake's apartment-- you know, the guy you swore to your friends you were done with-- and you just happened to stay the night?
Do you really want to hear them b*tching at you the next day, or would you rather do your walk of shame solo, with only your conscience judging you ... hmm?
[This is hypothetical, obvs.]
MaryBitchards@reddit
Oh, I had no filter whatsoever. My friends knew every time I did the a.m. slink.
ChildhoodOk5526@reddit
I always eventually told on myself, too!
(A night with Jake had to be talked about 😆)
Jeichert183@reddit
You’re damn right it did!
Wistfully yours, Jake.
I-Survived-2020@reddit
Random gen Z chiming in.
It is extraordinarily useful for roommates or friends to know where you’re at from a safety perspective and that’s often a driver behind girls using it in particular
ChildhoodOk5526@reddit
Good point.
This reminds me of that college guy who went missing last year (?) after a night at the bar. CCTV showed him drunkenly stumbling around (no one helping him 😞), and then he just disappeared. People were concerned that maybe he was robbed and beaten and left for dead or something. But weeks later, they found his body in a river where he'd drowned. It was terrible. His poor parents.
So, yeah, I can see how this could helpful for sure.
kritycat@reddit
We call it a victory lap these days
Unplannedroute@reddit
Stride of pride if it was a good time
atxtopdx@reddit
Hoe Stroll
DasSassyPantzen@reddit
Slut strut.
XainRoss@reddit
Maybe if it was something where off was the normal state, but I turned it on if I was going out to a bar on the weekend.
brandnewspacemachine@reddit
Imagine caring what your friends think about who you're fuckin
DidntDieInMySleep@reddit
🤣🤣🤣🤣
eLishus@reddit
In my younger more social days, we had the Foursquare app. You’d check in at restaurants, bars, wherever, and see where your friends were too. We often would “find” each other throughout the night. But it wasn’t on 24/7 like location sharing.
SirMellencamp@reddit
100%. We are in the minority but I wish we had cell phones in college and high school
MaryBitchards@reddit
I'm kind of glad we didn't because some dude would've charmed me into sending tit pics and then humiliating me for decades. Or some shit. But I would've loved having a tracker on my buddies in college.
SirMellencamp@reddit
Oh for sure but titty pictures is a small price to pay to not be aimlessly wondering around looking for people,
mam88k@reddit
I am not, but thinking back to my college days and early "adulting" I would probably have done that. We wasted so much time trying to meet up with people on the weekends. I get why it's a bad idea now, but youth is for the young.
HootieRocker59@reddit
I remember one night trying to figure out how to change the outgoing message on my answering machine by calling it from a bar so that when my friend called my house to see where we were she would get the message and then call the bar to see if we were still there.
The best part was that it worked!
mam88k@reddit
I used to work as a bartender and I remember people calling and asking if their friend was there. LOL! Can you imagine doing that today?
HootieRocker59@reddit
I mean - you could probably still do it today, but it would be surprising
mam88k@reddit
Hello, Tube Bar
Hey, I'm looking for Al
Al who?
Kaholic
Hey! We got an AL Koholic in here!?!
HootieRocker59@reddit
So did you ever receive prank calls like that when you were a bartender?
mam88k@reddit
Nope, but as a fan of the Tube Bar tapes, and the Simpsons spin off joke with Mo I would have loved it had it ever happened.
HootieRocker59@reddit
*sigh* What might have been!!
reindeermoon@reddit
This would have been nice when living in the dorms in college. Like if you want to head to the cafeteria for dinner, you can see if any of your friends are already there.
SirMellencamp@reddit
It sucked trying to find people
Happy_Confection90@reddit
I had a similar thought. I probably would have in college.
Reader47b@reddit
What do you mean? From a phone? Is your phone defaulted to share your location? How do I turn this off???
UnhappyBreakfast5269@reddit
I am with you, OP! I (58m) tell my. Wife (56f) all the time to NOT follow me or at least not TELL me when you ate tracking me! It feels like a violation of the privilege I gave her when I Shared my Location , which should be for emergency use only.
She thinks I’m nuts and too secretive
Smooshie123@reddit
Life 360… imagine… someone can track you at all times. That’s a NO. Context: I’m 50, married with no children (he has 2 grown sons from a previous marriage). We both travel a lot for work. I’m totally Gen X & a former latchkey child. I could be dead for at least 24 hours & no one would know bc I’m BUSY & I’m not tied to my phone or do location sharing. Our ancestors did just fine.
TakkataMSF@reddit
Each generation gives up a little privacy for convenience. My mom refused online banking for the longest time. She has it now but doesn't like it. Streaming is out, because they don't need to know what she likes (she comes here to watch, thanks mom).
I asked for her SSN once and got the third degree about it. What's it for? Who is going to see it? Why do they want it?
Only signed up for facebook when she got a grandchild and my sister shares pictures through it.
Our generation could sign up for facebook without being a 'real' person. I wanted to DELETE my account, and they asked me for a photocopy of my driver's license. I was like, fuck you facebook. Now people have TikTaks and InstantGrammy's and then half of them are Twits too, they use Tweeter (AKA X which is such a stupid name I won't even make fun of it).
Share profiles, share locations, share lives, toss around the SSN to whomever. Damn near everyone is going to get hit with credit card fraud at some point. I got a notice from some company I didn't know existed that my data was compromised. These fucking companies and... no, no rants!
Kids these days aren't losing much by sharing the info. They're comfortable with it. My Silent Gen grandmother didn't like writing checks, never bought anything on credit, cash. Like I said, we all give up a little bit for convenience.
Now, I need to send photographs of my bum to some doctor for telehealth!
Suzbaru13@reddit
I call them tweet twats.
TakkataMSF@reddit
hahaha
BabiesWithScabies@reddit
I appreciate location sharing at times. My wife and I own a 20 year old car that is somewhat road worthy. When she needs to take it out of town I ask her to share location because it makes me feel better to check on her periodically just to see that she's still progressing in her travels.
I also grew up as part of a "call when you get there" family. My wife most definitely did not. If she shares her location then she's happy not to have to remember to call when she gets there
wolves_hunt_in_packs@reddit
Yeah, my folks are getting old so obviously it's useful to know where they are when they go out. Also mildly annoying when dad keeps asking where did someone go, repeatedly. Just look in the family chat, that's where we paste it.
This is a family-only thing, obviously.
monster-bubble@reddit
My parents refuse to have it on. Despite being unable to use a gps on their own, and my mother calling crying when she gets lost driving since her brain is starting to go. They just refuse. Luckily my sister hacked into mom’s phone and turned it on. My dad has more of his faculties and tends to just disappear on us at inconvenient times (like when my mom was in the hospital, cool dad) so we are trying to break into his phone too.
Albert_Im_Stoned@reddit
I'm so sorry. I know how hard it is to deal with
XainRoss@reddit
My dad won't even get a phone.
webfoottedone@reddit
I share with my husband and our kid. They both have adhd and tend to wander. I don’t care where you are, but you said you would be home hours ago.
XainRoss@reddit
My wife is from a "call when you get there" family. I am from a "we assume you're still alive since no one has told us differently" family.
Mr_Writes@reddit
I share location with my wife and daughter, and that's all.
No_Ninja_3740@reddit
I didn’t even know this was a thing. That’s horrifying. I can’t imagine.
ChoiceD@reddit
Ours is pretty much the last generation that will have had actual privacy. I'm afraid privacy is going the way of the dinosaur. My dad always used to say telephones (landlines) were an invasion of privacy. I used to think that was silly. Now I agree with him.
randomquirk@reddit
My friends and I (all GenX) share our locations but we’re a bunch of singles making sure we’re all safe. A couple of my friends travel a lot for work, one time my phone was stolen at the bar…it comes in handy lol
Ok-noway@reddit
No. Remember how embarrassing it was to be caught doing a “drive by”? 😂
beachmom77@reddit
OMG I still don’t discuss this
youwantadonutornot@reddit
Bruh. I deleted facebook because it revealed too much unintended information about my life. Sharing where I am every minute of my life.. just no.
beachmom77@reddit
God, the moment I realized posting in a group that was public was in a feed…..
Plastic_Cat9560@reddit
Hell no. No one needs to keep tabs on my daily naps.
beachmom77@reddit
Hahahaha
drink-beer-and-fight@reddit
Yeah, no. Locations are off. I have highschool age kids and I do not monitor their every move. It’s an invasion of privacy.
rowsella@reddit
I never did this to my son. I value the adventures I had as a young adult and it would not have been possible if I was on someone's nanny/stalker map.
drink-beer-and-fight@reddit
The reason I’m so self reliant is because of those summer days when I was on my own. I graduated highschool thirty years ago. There are still stories I’ve told my mom she’s not mature enough to know.
mafeb74@reddit
My daughter is 20 and a guy interested in her offered to add her to his Life 360 friend group and she ran so fast in the other direction she left skid marks.
Honorary Gen X.
LiveLaughObey@reddit
No. I barely own anything. Let me have some semblance of autonomous mobility unchecked and unburdened by expectations or observations. My movements are already tracked if really in dire need anyway. You ppl think you can actually power these things down?
Shit I wish I could be like you. Before you knew what I told you anyway. Lol
Natural_Ad3054@reddit
No way in hell. The only people that know my location are my adult son, and my best friend. They are my emergency contacts and personal reps as well. No one else needs to know where I am.
icrossedtheroad@reddit
"So, I see you haven't left your house, AGAIN."
rowsella@reddit
all they know is that your phone has not left your house... we are not chipped like cats.
Stigger32@reddit
I don’t have friends. So this is irrelevant to me.
TrynaSaveTheWorld@reddit
I still pretend I don’t see who’s calling on the caller id and just say “hello” and wait for people to identify themselves like I’m picking up the phone in the hallway and wrapping that twirly cord around my finger.
rowsella@reddit
LOL, I do that too.
Sunkist1976@reddit
I share my location on Facebook. Like an event. However, it's always after I've left.
Punkrockpm@reddit
Only if traveling (especially if they are expecting me) and/or meeting someone for the first time bc safety.
Other than that, hell no.
nygrl811@reddit
Location sharing? Like riding around the neighborhood until you find the house with all the bikes in the front yard?
OhSusannah@reddit
It's exactly that so I get why they do it.
OhSusannah@reddit
I don't do this as an adult but I absolutely would have as a teen if the technology had existed. I hate how technology is displacing in-person friendship and gatherings. This is an instance where technology is actually making it easier for people to be together in person instead of just communicating on a screen.
elsteve-9@reddit
I like to live my life like 1990. No tracking of any sort.
six28eightyfive@reddit
it's really handy when I am waiting for a ride from someone, or they are looking for me.
EnergyCreature@reddit
When my kids (adults) travel they enable it for safety. When my wife and I visit new places we turn it on just in case.
I'm a safety person for a few friends so that when they go on dates they put me on but will take me off once they trust the new person they are seeing.
Atiteic@reddit
My husband and our adult kids do this too for safety reasons. I never check it unless I know they have gone out of town somewhere, but at least I know everyone is safe.
SparklyRoniPony@reddit
My 21 year old son visited me (WA) recently (he lives in AZ), and his 20 year old friend drove 1300 miles to pick him up, see a concert, and play tourist. My son doesn’t have his license yet, so the friend was driving the whole way. I asked my son to share his location while they were driving back, and he did. It helped me help them when they were in the middle of the desert deciding how long they were going to go before stopping for the night. And had they managed to get stranded or something, I would know their last known location. I’m going to remind him to turn it off today. I don’t need to know where he is at all times.
My 13 year old daughter is required to share her location. She’s in 7th grade, and I think I’ll require it until she gets to high school.
I don’t inherently distrust technology, though. I feel like I had a great, typical GenX childhood, and I wouldn’t change it, but our parents were nucking futs to give is the amount of freedom we had. Not everyone made it home when the street lights came on. I give my daughter a lot of freedom, so letting me know where she’s at is a small ask.
ExtraAd7611@reddit
Heeeeeeeell no. I don't want anyone to know where I am, except members of my immediate family. Sometimes I have to visit somewhere and for various reasons, can't get in touch with everyone I know. It's easier if they just didn't know I was there.
Backieotamy@reddit
That's another level I want nothing to do with. Spouse and kids, yes, I have tmobile family and its been handy over the years for piece of mind or telling our son who was 16 at the time, uhhh, no you weren't at school unless class was at the movie theatre a mile away from school but all friends and family with this power is not for me.
spiralizerizer@reddit
This horrifies me more than I can say
Melietcetera@reddit
I see it as a possibility because I live alone and have a chronic illness… so if something happens, they’d see a lack of movement… 🤷♀️
OutrageousTie1573@reddit
Only my kids are in my circle. And of my four kids only the youngest who are still at home. The only thing I don't like is when they say. Oh mom! I see you are at Ulta, Sephora, scheeles or etc... can you get me x,y,z? 😂😂😂 Busted
wutwutsugabutt@reddit
It depends with who, I share my location with some friends cause I’m alone a lot and it’s nice to know someone can tell where I’m at.
SoylentHolger@reddit
Only when I am travelling and want someone to know when I will arrive (more precise than navigation ETA)
WarpedCore@reddit
No way. Scream insecurity in my opinion.
Call or text your friend and ask where they hell they are. Seems to work for me.
smoosh13@reddit
Just reading this post made me cringe in horror, to the idea that anyone (besides my husband) would know where I was at any given time. It has taken me a lifetime to curate my compartmentalized life and I’m not going to let some dumb app tell other people where I am.
kittin@reddit
creepy af. not cool.
321Native@reddit
I share with my immediate family only. Immediate meaning the ones I live with. My SO and I began using it years ago, only because we have a service business. I run dispatch and it’s a hell of a lot easier to just check location rather than call and interrupt, during service . When we’re not working we communicate with each other, no need to digital stalk.
But you do bring up an excellent point. The younger ones stalk the hell out of each other and it’s creepy that they’ve made it ok.
racer3x72@reddit
Absolutely not
Bunnita@reddit
I do but only for close family, and it would be only for travel but I keep forgetting to turn it off so it's on full time because I'm lazy. None of them would give me shit about not being at home all night because none of them check unless I'm traveling. I do travel alone driving in an old RV, so it makes sense that my Aunt and Uncle are constantly asking where I am so if I break down they can find me. It's just easier this way.
I would feel super weird if someone who wasn't on that short list of 'I trust you not to be too weird' had my location on. I don't have kids, and my mother doesn't actually go anywhere, so I guess it would be different then. I could also have seen myself turning this on in college for close friends, especially before dates and such. I am torn over the security vs convenience stuff, my choices on what I do and don't use don't make a lot of sense to anyone but me. I love my electronic assistants, and just got appliances that I can monitor from an app, so I guess I've assimilated.
KissMyPooh@reddit
Hell no! None of your damn business.
Helenesdottir@reddit
No and don't tag me in pictures either. Or check ins. I had a friend do that 15 years ago on FB and told her that I would be blocking her when I got home. I had a real-life stalker and don't need anyone being able to find me easily. I also don't allow voice assistants in my house.
XainRoss@reddit
I have asked people to untag me in pics when I am away from home. It is a security thing. People on Facebook do not need to know when I am in another state. I'll upload vacation pics when we get home.
321Native@reddit
Same. I’ve disabled tags for the same reason.
Rare_Hovercraft_6673@reddit
Nope. It's called privacy.
BlueSalamander1984@reddit
Nope, not strange. I’ll share it with someone so that they know when to expect my arrival, or if I have a safety concern. Aside from that? Hell no. I haven’t even seen that as being common among younger gen Z, let alone young gen x-older gen Z millennials.
reignoferror00@reddit
I don't use my phone much, a little bit of texting, receiving phone calls from parents, and a bit of listening to music when out. I don't even have data on it. Texting is mostly for logistics - plans for meeting.
Friend group? I think I've heard of friend groups and friends. In my current and even past social situation I'd have no use for location sharing. Even if I was social I couldn't see me liking or using such a thing.
Though I occasionally attempt last minute plans to meet up for coffee or whatever, I'm more "old school" in wanting to make plans in advance and actually sticking with said plans; in this day and age that works out a lot less often than it should.
BeBopBarr@reddit
The only location I care about is my minor child
Charming_Butterfly90@reddit
Umm, no.
buster_de_beer@reddit
I share only with purpose, such as I'm waiting for someone at a place and want them to be able to find me. Always time limited. It is off by default. Sometimes my partner is home later than I expect and I worry for no reason, but never have I even considered asking to share locations.
FlingbatMagoo@reddit
I’m 45 and recently started dating someone who’s 28. (I’ve never dated someone younger before.) After maybe a month or so, he started sharing his location with me, without me asking. I think he sees it as sort of a relationship milestone or something? Once or twice he’s casually mentioned that I can share mine with his as well and I just dodge the topic. I just don’t want to. I’m not up to anything shady, but it feels like it’s surrendering a very deep, comforting sense of being an autonomous human adult to just say, sure, you can monitor my every move 24/7. No thanks.
Root16Farm@reddit
Nope. Nobody's business.
GeneralJavaholic@reddit
Only with my nephew and I'm on the road.
CurlyDee@reddit
Didn’t your parents terrify you about all the kidnappers out there??
I have location shared with husband and my unmarried adult child. My married adult child shares location with wife and not me anymore.
It’s a safety issue!
And yes, I do answer my husband’s phone when it was someone we both socialize with.
We’ve been married 15 years and work together every day.
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
IKayBee@reddit
Yep, I share my location with my family and besties and they do the same. We don’t share passwords or social media accts but we do follow each other.
Objectively_Seeking@reddit (OP)
I just noticed it’s my cake day! Please celebrate with a slice of pie, on your own, nowhere near me.
rebelene57@reddit
There’s no cake award so here. Have some popcorn (which isn’t its typical purpose).
Music-Maestro-Marti@reddit
Happy Cake Day!
Useful-Badger-4062@reddit
Happy cake day. I’ll celebrate you by eating a Little Debbie Swiss Creme Roll.
Lizakaya@reddit
Happy cake day bro
Realistic-Explorer69@reddit
Happy Cake Day
Distinct_Plankton_82@reddit
Don’t tell me how to live my life! You’re not my mom!
LilJourney@reddit
You're not the boss of me! I had a cookie instead. :) Happy cake day!
brande1281@reddit
Can I have a Milky Way Dark? I'm working and can't get away.
Unlikely_Side9732@reddit
Happy cake day!
PeopleLikeUDisgustMe@reddit
Happy cake day!
🍻 🍻
A couple of rounds from somewhere.
Btw, location is always off, all of my internet history is off, I erase everything.
thisquietreverie@reddit
I will and we will continue to never talk sometime.
Independent_Ad_5664@reddit
I can see you :) 🤣 happy cake day.
AzureGriffon@reddit
Delicious, thanks!
Devilimportluvr@reddit
Happy cake day!
MommaBear354@reddit
😂🤣😂 consider it done. And I won't tell you where I am either
JCo1968@reddit
My wife and I share locations. We've both had health issues and felt it was a good idea.
EstimateAgitated224@reddit
No I don't use it. Not even with my kids. In all fairness they are 21 and 19 so they would most likely track me more than I would them. Hey Ma I see you are by McDonalds can you grab some grub? Hey Ma are you at the mall, I need some xyz. Hey Ma why aren't you at home, what are you doing at a restaurant on a Tuesday? My husband would be worse. So not for me. Thanks. My kids text me what they are doing, even the 21 year old who does not live at home will tell me when he arrives to see his gf at college.
ClerkPleasant9520@reddit
Lol yes I have a 23 and 26 year old and I get calls non stop all day asking where I am...majority of the time I tell them im fine dont worry about where Im at..im a grown woman and dont need a babysitter. My 23 yr old would most definitely just show up if I jad my location on.
bmanjayhawk@reddit
Pretty sure my friends already know that I never leave my house, I don't need an app to emphasize it.
daniellaroses1111@reddit
No
QueenScorp@reddit
Nope, not in a million years. Its bad enough that people expect you to text back immediately, they do NOT need to know where I am at constantly. I thought being stalked was a bad thing???
ClerkPleasant9520@reddit
Exaxtly this! I am constantly reminding people how we had phones at homes with a voicemail machine and alot of times I would get home and not even check my messages til later that night and not return a call til the next day- i hate qhen people get upset because i didnt return a text immediately. Sharing my location? Not with anyone ever. If I want you to know where I am, i'll tell you otherwisw I dont think it's anyone's business to know.
LightBeerOnIce@reddit
Nope.
Mulliganplummer@reddit
I told my wife she can have either read receipts on iMessage or she can know my location all the time. She chose to know where I am at the time. I find it odd, but whatever.
My 14 year old saw one of his friends was a the parking at the b-ball hoops, he ran over and joined him. I thought this was cool.
tmf_x@reddit
I have my family on Life360. WIfe, 2 daughters. No one else needs to know where I am.
My daughters have friends on their location sharing stuff. ITs totally super weird to me.
nectarinetree@reddit
The friend showing up uninvited would normally just be a thing where you like the same things, and frequent the same spots -
I once moved to a new city and then saw someone from my old city at a coffee shop in my new city. That was pure serendipity, pure accident, and it was pretty cool.
I find location sharing by cell phone creepy and dystopian as hell, though.
Also there have to be some kind of ways to make it look like you were some place that's not really where you were.
sharkycharming@reddit
Fuck no. I think it's idiotic.
Throwaway-ish123a@reddit
I'll refer back to paraphrase Jurassic Park.
"Just because you can do a thing doesn't mean you should do a thing."
insecurecharm@reddit
The only thing I share is Uber info with a friend cause some of those people are sketchy AF, like the guy who got on the interstate after being told not to and stopped responding. That's the only one star I've ever given, even the guy with a cracked windshield that went 60 in a 20 mph zone didn't get that.
Strong-Piccolo-5546@reddit
No. I work for the mafia and they said I am not allowed to share my location.
labtech89@reddit
In don’t have friends so problem solved LOL. I do with family if I am driving long distance in case something was to happen and if I had a SO I may.
Leviathan8675309@reddit
I’ve been sharing my location with family and spouse for a while now. I told a coworker (born on the cusp of boomer/X) about it and she about lost it. She could not understand why anyone would want to do that and how bad it would be especially for people involved in relationships where there is DV.
Disembodied_Head@reddit
No, I just leave my bike out front to let the other neighborhood kids know where I am.
Suntzu_AU@reddit
I share location with my wife and kids. Really handy. Especially no my daughter just got her driver's licence.
mpls_big_daddy@reddit
I share with my partner for safety, and everyone else can fuck off. My partner does something annoying though: I'll go to the store after work on the way home, and she will say, "Man you spent a lot of time at that one store..." I hate that.
DreadGrrl@reddit
My husband, son, and I share our locations. It’s eliminated a lot of phone calls.
ThinWhiteRogue@reddit
My wife and I have location sharing turned on just for safety.
bexy11@reddit
😂
No.
Kajira4ever@reddit
I won't switch it on. I'll tell you where I'm going but that's it
crxdc0113@reddit
My wife and I share our location, but it started when I was over the road trucking. I wanted someone to know where I was in case I died on the road. I did not want to rot away in a truck stop like I had seen so many times.
CumulusTattoos@reddit
My children (16 and 11) and my husband are the only people I share my location with. Otherwise, why? I’m a private person. Where I am and what I’m doing is none of your business. It’s way too intrusive for my taste.
Ouakha@reddit
No. Location only on when navigating.
I solo hike too and only turn it on when checking location.
TBH we don't even have a set up to share location even if we wanted to!. I use a Garmin InReach if remote hiking.
NothingGloomy9712@reddit
I turn this all off. The funny thing is that Google still tracks you. They periodically send me an email asking if I wanted to see my tracking data, even though I went out of my way to deny permission. They send me a pic of the heat map showing where I've been asking if I want to access it.
jfellrath@reddit
I use Life360 with my parents. They're both in their 80s and my dad is suffering from Alzheimer's so it's a good thing to be able to keep tabs on him. And it comforts them to know where I am, I think.
I have my kids on Google Family Link so I CAN monitor them with that. But again, my daughter is only 17 and my adult son is on the autism spectrum, so it makes sense there, IMHO.
But my wife and I don't even share locations on Google Maps. She doesn't know my passwords, I don't know hers, and we're both comfortable that way.
I think part of it comes down to the lack of age-bestowed wisdom in Gen-Z folks (and that's not a slam, we were unwise when we were kids, too) and not seeing how that sort of thing could be used against you, or the awful mindset it could put you into.
Bac7@reddit
Even when I was traveling for work, it never crossed my mind to share my location with my spouse. If he asked me to, I probably would, I guess? I WFH so he'd be really bored checking on me. But it's never crossed his mind to ask or share his either. We do a lot of "OMW" texting though, so the one who is home can start dinner or reply to pick something up.
My millennial friends keep trying to get me to share my location. Hard pass. If you want me to keep an eye on yours for your date, fine. But you don't need to see mine, I'm good.
My Gen Alpha kid is too young for a phone, but he has a GPS-enabled watch. He doesn't wear it often, but it's come in handy when he's gone places and then decided he wanted to come home earlier than intended, because it allows him to call me and I can see where he is for easier pickup.
CatelynsCorpse@reddit
I don't even share my location with my husband, I'm sure as hell not sharing with my damn coworkers.
Pizza-n-Coffee37@reddit
That’s weird, what are you doing that you don’t want him to know about?
CatelynsCorpse@reddit
Why would you assume that I'm doing anything that I don't "want" him to know about? I said I don't share my location with him, not that I wouldn't. 🙄
ElonsEmeralds@reddit
I don’t share my with my wife. We trust each other and have no need to invade each other’s privacy. Privacy is almost dead. Might as well enjoy the embers
CatelynsCorpse@reddit
Same. I've thought about it. I just don't think it's necessary for us. 99 times out of 100 I'm either at home, work, or somewhere that he has been told that I'm going to because we communicate like adults and because I tell him stuff like "I'm going to Target on the way home, want anything?"
Soniquethehedgedog@reddit
I have Life360 because I have kids. It’s not the worst thing to know where they all are, I would never share with a friend but my wife and mother in law are on 360 with me. There are times when it can be annoying but it’s not really that intrusive and if you have nothing to hide, nobody has anything to complain about
Lady-Un-Luck@reddit
I don't want to do this either. Sometimes people can't take no for an answer. I then tell a little white lie about what I'm doing that is keeping me from hanging out with them. I can't have them seeing that I'm not really doing what I said I was. I work a lot. I'm tired. Sometimes I just want to do nothing!
itsmyvoice@reddit
Oh hell no. My location is shared with my teenager so he can be aware of when I'm almost home from the grocery store and will need help with everything. And with my fiance.
I have situationally shared with a couple of very close friends temporarily, like the first night I spent at the now fiance's house.. just in case, for safety. They promptly googled him and did some light cyber stalking because they're great friends. I hasn't even done that lol.
But I would never just share generically. I think most of us also have smaller friend groups by the time we get to our stage of adulthood. So the idea of 40 people having my location and showing up randomly just couldn't be a thing.
Square-Section-8418@reddit
Friends hells no. Family. Absolutely
SpecialKayKay@reddit
I only used it with my ex and that was because I would be alone in the city while he worked and I would frequently get lost. Once I was familiar I stopped sharing. It’s nobody’s business where I am
chaossensuit@reddit
I have my kids location and my daughter in law and they have mine.
chaossensuit@reddit
I just realized I have me best friends location and she has mine. I also get her Lyft notifications.
Hfcsmakesmefart@reddit
I don’t even share location with my wife. We didn’t do this for our whole existence so it’ll be fine
Reasonable_Smell_854@reddit
Fuck that…
I rarely use it, but keep a faraday bag in my bag for when I really just wanna be left the fuck alone. Power it off, wrap it up, and be reasonable assured I’ve gone dark
Feeling-Ad-2490@reddit
This is the way. Let me be a hermit, dammit.
Reasonable_Smell_854@reddit
I spent many years wandering the mountains of Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico without a phone using map and compass and strategic planning to check in and out with friends. I mean that way someone would know where to look for my remains.
Fuck this always connected life
Common_Moment6006@reddit
I found my tribe 😁
Djragamuffin77@reddit
Amen
bunnybates@reddit
Never! Sharing my location feels like sandpaper to me.
Naive-Beekeeper67@reddit
Exactly. I DO not get it at all. I would absolutely hate that. Find no value in it and find it stalking type behaviour.
I would be mortified and disgusted if my partner even suggested it. And i would never consider doing it to my children either.
If i want to know where someone is? I ask them. Its up to them to decide if they want to tell me. Their right as a person to have privacy.
Common_Moment6006@reddit
WomCatNow@reddit
Sure, makes planning easier.
Common_Moment6006@reddit
Horrible! I say NO to having an electric leash.
I treasure my alone time fiercely. If I'm having a shit day, the last thing I would want is someone tracking me down. If I want to talk to you, I will talk to you. Other than that I say piss off
😘😎😜
No-Obligation-8506@reddit
I think this is only a thing on iPhones, right? My husband and I are galaxy folks so we don't have the ability, but if we did, idk if I would do it.
Quick story: we bought a new stove. It's a "smart stove". It can text you when it's preheated. Great, right? Wrong! I'm working from home and hubby keeps texting me, asking what I'm eating! Idk why this bothered the fuck outta me and I disabled the texting feature. I don't need someone stalking me or my lunch! My husband always knows where I am. If we're not at work, we're almost always in text communication, we share a calendar in our phones, he knows where I am.
This said, our daughter is 25. She has a boyfriend as of recently, but she has been dating so knowing her roommate and her other girlfriends have her location makes me feel better. I know they would act if she wasn't where she was supposed to be, wasn't responding, etc. and that they would get in contact with me if anything was ever up. I think it's a great safety idea for young women, but I hope she disables it when she decides she's found "the one".
MariJChloe@reddit
Yes with my youngest (30) and husband.
PistachioGal99@reddit
The only people who need to know where I am are my cats.
SerentityM3ow@reddit
Lol. I don't even location share with my husband. When do I have time to look at what he's doing?
Glad_Mathematician51@reddit
Old Gen-Xer here. I drive 100 miles to work once or twice a week on long stretches of road with no gas stations, etc. I share with my husband so that he can find me if necessary. Same if I go fishing 100 miles early on a weekend morning, alone - someone needs to know where I am.
ultimate_ed@reddit
It's interesting to see a big split between the "Life360 is the DEVIL" branch of Gen-X and the "Share all the things, Tech is GLORIOUS" branch.
I tend to fall in the second camp. From the moment you started carrying a smartphone, your actual privacy has largely been an illusion. I might as well get some value out of it.
black65Cutlass@reddit
Hell no.
EnvMarple@reddit
I don’t like it. It’s an invasion of privacy.
MissLushLucy@reddit
I share my location with my partner and my son. I don't see a reason to share with anyone else. I also don't see a reason to wonder why other people have other preferences than me when it comes to this or anything else.
Sandi_T@reddit
Nope. No way.
I didn't even use this with my kid, who has type 1 diabetes.
This is fucking intrusive.
Raisedbypsycopaths@reddit
With my daughter all the time.
MrsEmilyN@reddit
I only share my location with my husband. We only have the app in case we can't get ahold of one or the other for some reason.
JJQuantum@reddit
My wife, 2 sons and I share. We don’t show up but it’s handy to know if someone is out when they are on the way back, say for cooking dinner. It’s handy when my son leaves his phone somewhere and after using the location we find it in a shopping cart in the parking lot of the grocery store. It’s handy on vacation when we split up and need to meet back. It’s just handy to have. If you don’t want to do it then don’t.
defmacro-jam@reddit
It just seems like the electronics-enhanced version of us visiting all the places looking for somebody -- and being told "I think they're with Jenny at 'the matts'"...
I could see us doing that back in the day -- just as I can see turning off my transponder at times to drop off the radar.
thewanderingwzrd@reddit
Imagine having a device that increases your awareness about the world and those in it, and then disabling it.
SevenBlade@reddit
So much of this technology acts to remove our awareness. What "The World" is has become increasingly foreign to far too many people. By disabling another distraction you're just removing a set of blinders.
Music-Maestro-Marti@reddit
Nope. Gen X here. You are correct. Location sharing is stalker-y. I don't do that. I won't do that. You don't need to know where I am. And I don't care where you are. I'm where I'm at, & you're where you be.
theglorybox@reddit
Everyone keeps saying it’s “for safety” but it just seems excessive. I mean, we got by mostly fine without it before and calling someone to/from somewhere or in an emergency seems like it should be enough if you’re that worried about them. Why do you need to know where someone is ALL the time? People are just so possessive over each other’s existence now.
Reminds me of an old boyfriend who would see me tagged somewhere with friends and just show up. Even if it was just us girls. It was so creepy and bizarre that I stopped tagging my location and never have since.
dhexler23@reddit
Location sharing is gross as fuck
Vivian326619@reddit
Location sharing only if I can lie. "Bonjour everyone I'm in Paris eating a crossant and having a cafe au lait" ~When really I'm at the DMV or maybe picking up my dry cleaning 😂 Why would I want people to find me? Ya No to that
turlian@reddit
I do this with my wife and kids, but not outside of that. That's just weird.
Raineyb1013@reddit
No. One time sent an emergency alert because the phone hit something in my purse.
Turned that shit off.
Tea_and_Smoke@reddit
As an introvert who is very private this is my worst nightmare. I dont want to be found, leave me alone!
TheNinjaBear007@reddit
That seems really fucking weird to me. Like, just sharing your location with friends all willy-nilly? I’ve never heard of anyone doing that. My husband and I share our locations with each other because we live in a valley surrounded by mountains with snow 8-10 months out of the year. But that just makes sense.
SollSister@reddit
I share with my husband and our kids. I love that our kids share with us. I’m not being nosy, I just want to know that they are safe. Husband and I get an idea when the other will be home from work even though we both call on our drive home. I’ve never shared either a friend though. I wouldn’t mind doing it at their request, it’s just never come up.
mbfunke@reddit
You ever show up unannounced at a friend’s house? This seems like that but mobile. I admit it does feel creepy when my kids mention having tracked me to see when I’d be home and imagine it would be worse with someone less close. Still, I definitely see the appeal. It probably helps that kids these days are also more free to express their needs and openly talk about social batteries.
Immediate_Mud_2858@reddit
I’d never do that. Only share my location with my husband and our son, and vice versa.
Mediocre-Catch9580@reddit
It’s bad enough that my work tracks me from my phone, I don’t want the whole world to know. Sometimes I just want some privacy
Deadlysinger@reddit
I share my location with my daughter. It started when she was vacationing in another country while I was taking care of her small children. We left it because I’m in my 60’s and live alone. She doesn’t look at it because my life is to boring but it is there for safety if needed.
Runs_With_Scissors3@reddit
I feel you! Part of me seriously misses the days when the phone was a stationary fixture on the wall in the kitchen. You had to be near it to be accessible.
I don’t think anyone should have to account for every moment or movement they make during their day. It’s so invasive! No location sharing for me. Nope.
dannown@reddit
Yeah, I'm positively promiscuous with my location sharing, but half of my old-people friends seem really shy about it. I tell them "never aks me where I am, it's always on the app". But generally I like seeing the map w/ a bunch of little dots for my friends & family...
zoeyversustheraccoon@reddit
Sounds like this generation's version of showing up at someone's house unannounced.
Not a fan of either and my location sharing is definitely off.
AnonUser3216@reddit
I live alone. My friend lives alone. When we hike separately we turn the Life360 location on and check in because of men.
RiffRandellsBF@reddit
With my wife, yes. If I'm vacationing with our adult kids, yes. Otherwise no. And with my coworkers? Fuck no.
Bot-avenger@reddit
Sounds really cool, but my son doesn't want to be a part of my existence 😳😵💫😵💫😵💫
Usual-Revolution4543@reddit
This is why middle aged people are going crazy - no - I can’t imagine being stalked, tracked or monitored being in any way a positive thing.
TriggerTough@reddit
Only with my family, not just random circles of people.
numberjhonny5ive@reddit
I share mine with my wife. Main reason is I probably have adhd and forget to leave work on time and often forget to communicate that. She is the only person though and it is to avoid arguments of me remembering to leave on time.
Bartlaus@reddit
Have very occasionally switched that stuff on, when trying to locate friends in a mutually unfamiliar location.
Like, twice, I think.
We do keep location tracking active on our 13yo boy's phone but that's basically just so we can have some hope of recovering it when he forgets it on the train or something. Kid's an introverted homebody much like myself, little apparent risk of him running wild somewhere. (Might get lost though.)
Tackybabe@reddit
My father, my sister, my husband and I share locations. It’s for convenience and safety. My dad and sister live far away and we can time when they are arriving or see if they’re home to call - and my dad is always outside and I’m concerned about him because he is old - if ever he doesn’t answer, I can tell 911 where he is. My husband and I, it’s for commenting / dinner / errands eta’s - it helps to reduce the phone calls/texts. Nobody is showing up anywhere spontaneously. Ew.
crs1904@reddit
Own_Elderberry6812@reddit
My 18 yr old shares his location with all his friends.
My 21 yr old met me for a father son weekend and his fraternity brothers were like “dude where you at?” And when they learned he was gone they said “you don’t just do that”.
In some ways I find it dear that they really care about and watch each other.
But for me. No location services. I’m Gen X mf’er no one ever knew where we were (or cared) so not gonna change now. 😂
XainRoss@reddit
The TV had to remind our parents they should know where we are after dark, the rest of the time they didn't GAF.
WalkingOnSunshine83@reddit
My husband & I share locations for safety purposes.
Missamoo74@reddit
I share it with my siblings and mum. It's great. I can see if they are home or the off chance that they are at the same festival or event as I am I can find them. Easy peasy
XainRoss@reddit
My wife, daughter, and I all share locations with each other. That is mostly just for safety and convenience though.
108_Minutes@reddit
Hell no! Get off my lawn.
Music-Maestro-Marti@reddit
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Boogra555@reddit
I share my location with my wife, and she shares hers with me. If anything happens we know where the other was, at least.
Holoafer@reddit
No one needs to know where I am. I don’t post any pictures from events or trips until they are over.
FlyBuy3@reddit
Nah, fuck that intrusive noise.
RoundMedium@reddit
This behavior baffles me as well. I’m a supervisor at work and when conducting a Preshift briefing I will think out loud, “ok, so no Jane today.” 9/10 I have someone say “hold on I’ll see where they are…..they just got off the highway so they should be here in a couple of minutes.” It’s the oddest behavior I have experienced as I get older.
cruets620@reddit
My wife and I share. She has a long commute so just good to know she made it ok to work
Archangel1313@reddit
My wife and I share locations, but only when one of us is going to be on the road far from home. We both turn off our location data otherwise.
irmarbert@reddit
Jesus Christ no. What? Fuck no. That’s a hill I will die on. Not turning that shit on for anyone…and I don’t even go to weird places. It would be me sitting at work all day, then on the couch when I get home. But, still, fuck off with that bullshit.
twineandtwig@reddit
Read receipts turned off.
I have less than five people I share location with, and we do it for safety reasons.
My mom.
My oldest/a best friend.
My second oldest/best friend’s husband (she needs a new phone so has him share their family’s location on his).
That same friend’s mom, who I’ve known since I was 12 and is like a second mom to me.
Flashy-Lab-1819@reddit
You have a family, and Gen z by in large feels alienated by theirs. This is their makeshift way of trying to build a community from nothing
moonbeam127@reddit
No
Fuzzy_Attempt6989@reddit
I find this horrifying. Had an abusive, invasive mother and a super controlling ex. I would NEVER do this!
Mash_man710@reddit
I have adult children. They track everyone they know. It's a nightmare of insecurity and over sharing. I track nobody and nobody tracks me.
AngryAllegra@reddit
Yes! I share location with my younger millennial single friends and my Gen x single guy friends. The millennial girls have a history of car accidents and the Gen X guys have a history of hospital stays. So I want to know where they are from now on. As for me, I don’t go anywhere and I work from home, so my location sharing is not very interesting.
SomePaddy@reddit
Fuck that noise. We randomly run into one another at some unexpected third place: heyyyyy, look who it is, let's grab a beer. You crash the thing I'm doing without you because you stalked me - ick.
Objective-Amount1379@reddit
I share my location with one friend and she shares hers with me. Prompted by listening to lots of true crime and realizing I want someone to have info if I go missing lol.
I know lots of people share within their immediate families or with a partner but I don't know anyone who shares with all of their friends. I think that's odd
FrozenVikings@reddit
Yup I share my location with my wife all the time, because I'm prone to confusion and getting lost. No, I'm always paddling and skiing solo, which puts me off the beaten path where, if I'm in trouble, I'm often unlikely to run into someone who can help me. I check in regularly, so if she doesn't hear from me within a reasonable amount of time she can call for help. I'm 55 and who knows, any day now I can have a heart attack or some other heatlh event that prevents me from getting back to civilization. At least this way I know she can tell rescue where I am.
Plus I ain't got nothing to hide, she can even unlock my phone and look through it!
alwaysneversometimes@reddit
I share with my family and one very close friend who doesn’t have her own family looking out for her. It seems weird to me to share location across a group of friends BUT maybe I would have if this technology was available when I was 20 years old - back when I had a social life and left the house voluntarily!
UnluckyCharacter9906@reddit
No friggen way. Aunt martha showing up when im at the barber? No thank you
Dixieland_Insanity@reddit
I think there are as many answers to your question as there are people who use these types of apps. I use a location sharing app with my daughters. Both of them live in different states, and I go back and forth between them. If they're concerned about me running late, they can check the app and see where I am. I wouldn't consider expanding this to other people in my life.
EveNevermind@reddit
Nope.
CoolJeweledMoon@reddit
I was having a conversation about this very thing with my daughter & granddaughter, & they both share locations with friends &/or significant others, but I said that I would absolutely never do that - I can't stand the thought of so blatantly being tracked!
Yes, I realize that, on one hand, I am basically being tracked by my phone, but that's still completely different than openly sharing my every move with friends & family...
I absolutely can not imagine what it would have been like to have been tracked as a teenager, either!
QueenOfCrayCray@reddit
I share only with a few family members. My millennial niece shares with all her friends. I never thought about it being used to just show up where someone is at. I share with those few just for safety reasons.
londongas@reddit
It would be cool to have some way of knowing if your friends happen to be nearby though
londongas@reddit
I use it if planning to meet . For example if I'm a driver picking up someone I'd share location so they can anticipate what time to come outside to meet me.. or if we are meeting friends in the park or the woods it's easier to share location. But day to day sharing seems overkill.
Passmeachockie@reddit
Nope
CivMom@reddit
My family has ours on. Works for us. And, no, we don’t share social media accounts.
Glittering-Station78@reddit
Just with my husband and adult children. My daughter shares with her friends, and that seems crazy to me. I’ve always been a loner, so I can’t see me enjoying my friends just randomly showing up.
WinterBourne25@reddit
The only one I share locations with is my daughter. She’s single and lives alone. I do it for her safety. She appreciates it. Especially when she has to be alone in the parking lot at night after work.
dogriverhotel@reddit
I share it with my husband and vice versa. As others have said it’s just easier when your planning daily things like when to make dinner etc. I also have a hilariously slutty train wreck friend/coworker that location shares with me so that at least someone knows where she is during her sexcapades
kaishinoske1@reddit
I only turn on location services when using an app and turn it off after I’m done.
bottleofgoop@reddit
God no. Difference is we were all kicked out of the house and therefore we knew our friends locations coz we were out with them. Reckon if i grew up genz I would prolly do the share location thing.
abstractraj@reddit
My wife loses her phone at a fantastic rate. We’ve used the insurance multiple times. I don’t want to keep throwing hundreds of dollars away. So now, yes location
The_Mother_@reddit
Shit, even my kids won't share their location with anyone. We don't need to be found
unknowntravellert@reddit
It’s the new version of finding where all the bikes are
Difficult_Advice_720@reddit
This was my first thought. If I wanted everyone to know where I was, I'd leave my bike on the lawn.
Ms_PeachBellini@reddit
I ain’t sharing my location with no one!!!
Ragus_0520@reddit
I don’t track my kids or husband. I don’t even think about it. But these kids (13 yr triplets) track me in carline picking them up! My latch key self is kind of flattered 😜
yviebee@reddit
I share with my fam. This reminds me of when caller ID became a thing and everyone was worried about their privacy.
LNSU78@reddit
Yes, but only trusted family and very close friends
Sheila_Monarch@reddit
I like that the technology exists, so I can use it exactly when it serves me, and never any other time. Like today, I shared my location for the day with two employees I’m traveling with, because we’re at a huge convention. But I don’t need them or anyone else knowing where I am at any other random time. Nobody needs to know that unless they’re already sitting right next to me.
Ev1lroy@reddit
It went from the privacy of ham/ cb radio callsigns to this. GIVE ME BACK MY PRIVACY.....whilst living on social media FFS.
RetroBerner@reddit
My whole family uses it, but there's no way I'd turn that on for friends
ArcticPangolin3@reddit
Absolutely not, but it was turned off so Google isn't always following me. What app do these people use to share their location with other people they know?
(Embarrassed to ask, given that I work in tech. I just hate social media.)
One_Hour_Poop@reddit
Just another version of over sharing from people who think they're more important than they are.
ToqueDeFe78@reddit
Location for husband and daughter - that’s it. Otherwise that’s creepy
I also won’t answer my door if you pop up announced-so showing up where I’m at big no no
Joeclu@reddit
Just with my spouse.
UnicornOnTheJayneCob@reddit
I do. I freakin’ love it. I share with my spouse, my kids, my sister in law, and my two best friends. It is nice and super convenient and is somehow less intrusive than calling and asking where someone is.
LeftyBanjo@reddit
no waaaay!
therelybare5@reddit
Wow, shocking how many people have location turned off! I have mine on for weather, restaurants and GPS. My family shares our location with family. It is particularly helpful when we travel and need to find each other quickly.
PRGTROLL@reddit
Yes I share. It’s fun. I’m not anywhere I shouldn’t be so who cares
DidelphisGinny@reddit
That whole thing freaks me out. Ew. Where I am is no one’s beeswax, especially if we’re not together!
Sad-Chocolate2911@reddit
Obviously we’re not all the same, but I feel like Gen X is a more private cohort. Maybe it comes from our cynicism. Born in ‘73, graduated in ‘91. Always been tech/gaget savvy. My kids are a Gen Z and an Alpha.
I have my Z kid’s location on my phone. I check it occasionally for safety reasons or to find out how close he is to home—timing purposes. It’s always made me feel creepy. Yes, like a narc. I’m not a helicopter mom. Maybe if we had trouble, it would be different.
My partner & I have read receipts on so we know if we read each other’s texts. Sometimes we don’t/can’t reply. But I know he got an important message or meme. 😉 I could give a shit what his location is. Or anyone else’s!! That’s so weird!!!
But in the past month or so, I found out that my son & all of his friends share their locations. Soooo strange!!
Not just this, but it seems to be a Gen Z thing to, sit down for this…answer the phone even if the number isn’t in their contacts. Like, they don’t know who is calling. 🤯 Just like our parents!!!! I don’t get this one. I don’t answer unless I am fully prepared for a full blown conversation or it’s one of my kids.
Gen Z is so different. I’m terrified of the Alphas.
Mookie442@reddit
That’s insane!
Katy_Bar_the_Door@reddit
With spouse and kids, yes. With others, only if we are trying to connect at the time, ie-I’ll turn it on or accept when meeting a friend at the beach or an event so we can find one another more easily. Then I turn it off.
mossbrooke@reddit
It is more common, but it feels like a nightmare, unless I'm doing something stupid where I do need someone to watch me get lost.
KnightOwl1408@reddit
Only when I go hiking. If you don’t hear from me in three hours, you call for help or come get me.
Ezilii@reddit
When I traveled to meet my not husband for the first time I shared my location with a friend in case I went missing. We’ve been sharing our locations for nearly two decades.
My husband and I have location sharing between us, again for reasons like an accident etc.
I temporarily share my location when doing something with a larger group of people at something like an amusement park, convention, or concert.
Otherwise nope. I’m not sharing.
lovegood123@reddit
My kids do this. It’s so weird.
StonedGhoster@reddit
I share my location with my wife, and she shares hers with mine. Now, for whatever reason, my location sharing doesn't work for her, but it's on. That's it. I don't even have location services on any apps. And I have no problem turning do not disturb on.
Dell_Hell@reddit
Fuck no. How am I supposed to not be followed when I go look for that dead body??
Junior_Ad_3301@reddit
I get bugged about not installing the live360 app so "people will know where I'm at." (This is just the Fam btw) But I always just shoot a text if I'm otw or x min late or whatever. She says "but you won't have to text" and I'm like "you don't need to answer if I'm just telling you what's up." I know we're all being recorded for "data" anyway, but why give yet another way?
healthyitch@reddit
With my family, yes. I have nothing to hide from my wife and nor her with me. And when my kids were in their teens and we got them phones, location sharing was always on. They are all now adults and still share their locations with us by choice. As parents, the intention was never one of tracking or creeping, but rather of safety. And we made that clear to them by never questioning the reason they were at some place. And in turn, they never felt the need to lie to us and were always right up front with us. This is in stark contrast with how I grew up in the 80’s. The stories I told my parents.
Pladohs_Ghost@reddit
I think it's creepy as fuck. No, peeps, you don't get to track me. It's none of your goddam business where I am.
Ok-Cardiologist1412@reddit
Tonight I noticed (I knew about this feature from friends who had shared with me but never the other way around) that I could let my friend know where I was on my uber journey so he wouldn’t wonder why I wasn’t at the pub at exactly 6PM when I said I would be there. But I had to agree to upload all of my contacts to Uber’s servers. Nope. I don’t mind my friends knowing where I am but Uber doesn’t get to see my friends’ contact info. Seems like I’m just violating their privacy for Uber. Eff that, man. I text my friend that I’ll be there at 6:04, and he’s welcome.
CaptainObvious1916@reddit
That’s a no from me. I have it turned on for my wife, I do check up on her when she’s travelling for work, make sure she got to the hotel safely etc. but that’s about it.
bubblesnap@reddit
My bigger issue here is our generation naming their kids Jaden, Jayden, Aiden, Hayden, and Braden. Tragedeigh.
Migamix@reddit
considering you can turn them on manually during lunch times, I kinda see beyond the big business privacy crap. for friends, this would be an ideal way to say, "I'm going for lunch, who's with." I could see this as an interesting business idea but with actual ethics and tact. 🤔 doesn't even have to be your personal device. just a beacon or sorts, closed encrypted network
Hung_On_A_Monday@reddit
My spouse and children (both grown adults) are location shared in case of emergency, but that’s all.
sailorelf@reddit
I share with my kids and my kids share with me. I’ve had siblings share if they are going out of town for safety reasons. I would want them to find me on the map so that they can track me.
shamy52@reddit
My husband and I know each other’s location but that’s it.
valerie523@reddit
I only share my location with my teen daughter. That’s it. No one else. It’s nobody’s business where I am if I don’t tell them myself!
notMyPenis@reddit
I share with my three sibs who are also Gen X. We're all in different cities.
Blonde_Mexican@reddit
Nope
bluedonutwsprinkles@reddit
I want to do this but hubby says no, so I didn't. If he isn't then I'm not either. It's a Big Brother issue with him. I didn't argue to do it as I have privacy concerns as well.
JamieRoth5150@reddit
Nope. Never have
Tex_Arizona@reddit
Fuck. No.
My Mother and sister and brother-in-law do this. They can't understand why I'm a hard no.
ILoveMeeses2Pieces@reddit
Hell no. My husband and kids don’t even know where I am.
PahzTakesPhotos@reddit
My location is shared with my adult kids and my husband. And the same is for him. Our two daughters (35 and 31) share their location with me, but our son (33) does not. And honestly, because he's a motorcyclist, I wish he would. Not for nosy purposes, but just in case he's ever in an accident.
Qedtanya13@reddit
Only with my dad and daughter
XTingleInTheDingleX@reddit
No, my wife is.
aunt_cranky@reddit
(in Samuel Jackson's voice). HELL NO!!
I at least want the tech to work for my data.
Admirable-Cobbler319@reddit
Absolutely not. I don't even share my location with my husband.
My kids are like unicorns in that I don't track their locations either.
LissyVee@reddit
This is the Gen X way. We were chucked out the door and left to amuse ourselves until dinner time. We learned to look after ourselves. If I want to do something or go somewhere, I do it. The idea of someone tracking me just makes my brain explode. Leave me the hell alone to live my life.
Embarrassed_Wing_284@reddit
My husband and I share locations, but that’s it. If a friend is lost, one of us may drop a location to help them find their way.
DooDooCat@reddit
I only do the location thing with family
Heeler2@reddit
Nope.
PeyroniesCat@reddit
I only do it with close family. If a friend or acquaintance doesn’t already know where I am, it’s by design.
GarionOrb@reddit
Some in my friends circle (most of whom are older than me) all use this. I personally wouldn't do it, as I don't want people to know where I am 24/7.
dontbeajoiner@reddit
I have location sharing with my wife, my parents, my college roommate and his wife, and about 10 other friends. I do have a couple friends who won't participate, but the majority love it.
We do joke around and call each other "stalkers" if someone makes a comment on where one of us is. But we find it really fun and useful.
slvrposie@reddit
I have a similar setup with my close friends and some family, but I'm single and live solo. I like that my closest people know where I am, especially because I'm rural and drive long distances by myself and I travel alone. I don't check where people are very often, but will do if they're traveling or if I can't get a hold of my parents who are usually at their house and I'm a little worried.
Beautiful_Rhubarb@reddit
It hink most people in this thread are forgetting the whole FRIENDS part. You share your location with people you LIKE, not just randos off the street lol. Last week when the location wasn't working due to the solar storm my kids were going nuts haha. I hated it bec one thing I like it for is knowing when to meet the bus. I had to go to the school on blind faith and ended up almost an hour too early haha
ringobob@reddit
I don't know how to do it. I actually wish my wife and I had shared locations, maybe a couple times a year. I could figure it out, but it's never a big enough deal to get me off my ass to do it.
imalloverthemap@reddit
If needed, I will turn it on for the minimum amount of time needed, and it automatically turns off. That is just weird.
ikonet@reddit
I share my location with any friend or family that asks. I don’t remember checking on anyone’s location except for a specific urgent reason, like did you make it to the store yet because I want blue Gatorade not light blue.
RustyBoon@reddit
Why have a government agency track your every move when its engrained into the core of tthe new generation to happily give up privacy cause "its a cool app"
FlizzyFluff@reddit
Mine are off always.
wishmachine007@reddit
The only person I share my location with is my husband when I’m going out, but other than that I don’t even like putting my whereabouts on a fun social media post until after the fact, like the next day. I understand it for safety reasons (like with elderly parents) but it’s super uncomfortable for me to feel like anyone is “tracking” my whereabouts.
aluminumnek@reddit
Nope.
EntertainerOk252@reddit
Nobody’s business where my ass is, fuck off
AlternativeExpert434@reddit
I find it very stalky. In our day, if your friends wanted you there, they'd tell you. But I do remember we had less choices and more free time because it wasn't being sucked away by scrolling. There was the mall, the skatepark, the roller rink, and bowling alley. Everyone watched the same tv shows, talked on landlines.
DistinctTailor5937@reddit
Absolutely and unequivocally no Fkn way!!! Ridiculously creepy and how can you feel free and liberated while you’re being watched?
TheGirlwThePinkHair@reddit
I am with my SO. But I have rarely looked it in the past.
impeesa75@reddit
You mean like ASL?
Rom2814@reddit
No. Just fuck no.
worrymon@reddit
Why would I let anyone know where I was at all times?
Why would I want to know where people are at all times?
No, that sounds creepy as fuck to me.
sharksfan707@reddit
My wife and I are childfree but we share locations amongst ourselves. When we went to Europe a couple years ago, we shared our locations with a couple trusted friends just in case something were to happen.
gentlyepigrams@reddit
I also share with my spouse (we have no kids). We're a one-car household and it's a precaution. We almost never use it but when you need it, you really need it.
It would be useful at festivals for meeting up with people on a limited-time basis but usually the connections are bad enough that you can't tell where people are anyway. I've used it a few times that way but otherwise just with my husband.
sharksfan707@reddit
Also a one-car household. HOLLA!
Bobby_Globule@reddit
Same here. It helps us logistically, "Oh, you're near the hardware store?"
Avid4D@reddit
The only time I ever use location tracking with friends is when meeting at a venue or if someone travels home alone and we want to make sure they get home safe. When we use it it’s always for an hour at a time. Otherwise none of us ever track each other normally.
unsteadywhistle@reddit
My husband and I can see each others but only really use it to estimate commuting times when one of us is waiting for the other to get home.
My parents and I have it enabled because they are getting older & we decided it would be a good idea to enable it before it’s needed as one has a family history of dementia and the other has ADHD. I enabled them to view my location, too, just to make it mutual but I can't imagine any of us using it for anything other than an emergency or to help find a lost phone.
RedditSkippy@reddit
My husband shared his location with me when we were in a crowded area and likely to get split up.
He happened to keep it on and neither of us realized for months.
aknotamous@reddit
My husband shares his location with his siblings and father. When traveling, they often text jokes about restaurants, time spent in a location,etc. They all seem to enjoy this.
I don’t share my location with anyone, including my husband. I am also not tracking anyone else’s location. I simultaneously don’t give a fuck where you are and also don’t want to hear your thoughts on where I am or questions about what I’m doing.
Keldrabitches@reddit
I am totally over modern life
MiddleAgeWasteland@reddit
I like knowing where my teen is as he walks to and from school. I know he's home safe on the days I'm working later.
FakeRealityBites@reddit
I've never done it. Not even sure I would know how.
Demilio55@reddit
Yeah. Don’t really mind w some family and friends.
dicemonkey@reddit
remembers you can just turn it on and off easily ...
Okie_Chimpo@reddit
Not just no. Hell no.
When I choose to use location services, it's for my benefit. If someone wants to know where I am, they can ask me direct. And in return, I will also be direct and tell them no.
CheesyRomantic@reddit
My daughter’s friends do this. It seems their generation wants you to know their every move. And yes it can be used for safety reasons which is smart…. But it’s being used as a way to make people jealous.
Personally.. unless it’s for safety, I don’t want anyone knowing where I’m at.
Apprehensive-Cat-421@reddit
I only location share with my children. They are only allowed to location share with me, each other, and people I approve.
Dillenger69@reddit
Tried it with a few friends. Meh. I will never location share with a family member, girlfriend, or spouse. There are too many unknowns that pop into my head. I'd rather not know some things. I'm glad it wasn't a thing when I had kids or was married.
Hometownbug@reddit
I have life 360 with my grandkids. Two of my grandsons just started driving. I can’t imagine having people I work with having my location.
print_isnt_dead@reddit
Hell. No.
Lopsided_Panic_1148@reddit
Why would I want everyone to know where I am? That's just weird.
Bear_Salary6976@reddit
When I go to football games for my university alma mater, I'll often check in on Facebook so that people who are at the game and know me might stop by and say hi. Beyond that, I really would rather be disconnected when I'm out. You know, like in the days before we had smartphones.
JoeRega@reddit
It’s just a different way of doing things. It’s their version of riding bikes around town to see who’s around.
HillbillyEEOLawyer@reddit
I share location with my wife, three adult children and my two daughters-in-law.
JoshWestNOLA@reddit
Um no.
laynesdirection@reddit
Absolutely not.
SouthOrlandoFather@reddit
Not a location sharer and I don’t follow my kids either. I do find it funny when I remind a Gen Z that is only where there phone is. It doesn’t necessarily mean that person is there. Just there phone. Just sayin because well…..you know.
FlawedWoman@reddit
I find it creepy. My sister tried to share her location with me and asked me to share mine. No. No thank you.
TakeTheThirdStep@reddit
I do when I'm meeting up with someone. Like when my brother who lives flying-distance away is nearby on business and it takes me an hour to get to his hotel or vice versa.
seche314@reddit
I location share with my husband and kids (adult aged kids)
Twizzlers666@reddit
Absolutely not, I like to remain lost.
Farquaadthegreek@reddit
I share with some
madamesoybean@reddit
We hung out at the mall and looked for each other in the neighborhood and at the local taco shop. It doesn't seem much different to me. It's a group share of location mot stalking. Stalking is unwanted following and contact. This is modern friendship.
Awkward-Breakfast965@reddit
My kids share their locations with their friends, and exactly as you described. I think I would share my location with my buddies if I was a teen and the technology was available.
DisastrousMechanic36@reddit
location sharing for wife and kids only. With family, it makes send. When my kid leaves high school, her location sharing will be off.
Breklin76@reddit
With my 10 year old son, yes. Anyone else, fuck all.
DifferentShip4293@reddit
Not on purpose. Sometimes, I’ll get directions to a place and then I have a notification pop up and it freaks me out, lol!
jeffster1970@reddit
Ha! I supervise this 16 year old that forced her parents download an app to show their location. When she first told me, I said "Your parents are smart for keeping track of you!" (I said this because she's a minor and working until midnight some days) and she was like "No, it was my idea to keep track of them..." And right, the friends also keep track of each other.
Affectionate-Leg-260@reddit
I would not lie to my wife about where I was or what I’m doing. (Mostly) But nobody needs a location tracker on me. I reserve the right to be sketchy!
kapchis@reddit
Love it. I'd love it if a friend showed up, just because I'm terrible about inviting. I track my 83y old Dad. Used to track my adult daughters until we had an argument.
CynfullyDelicious@reddit
My response to requests for location and/read receipts:
Effective_Category_1@reddit
I didn’t realize Gen Z tracked their friends group like this. My husband and I are still amazed to fined ourselves arriving home at the same exact time, or even more weirdly behind one or the other in traffic. All in all, I’d rather leave it to pre-techno fate. ;)
Don’t even get me started on how we inadvertently stalk each other via the porch cams. We should probably have minders.
crematoryfire@reddit
I see the benefit if we are on a cross country road trip so the in-laws are not calling us every 2 hours asking where we are. Outside of that..... absolutely not.
I tell my spouse where I plan on going when I leave the house. If I go anywhere else, they find out when I get home. Spoiler, the other location is usually a drive-through where I pick up extra burgers/tacos to share.
norg74@reddit
No because it’s stupid
jbenze@reddit
I share mine with my wife mostly in case I drop dead, she knows where to send the hearse.
mandapandapantz@reddit
I think of it more like the modern version of when I would see all the neighborhood bicycles in the front yard of someone’s house. I tend to be a naive optimist tho
Ahenigan@reddit
I share with my husband and daughter and that is it. No one else needs to know anything else. I think that would be creepy, stalkerish too 😳
Samwhys_gamgee@reddit
Oh, fuck that!
EastHuckleberry5191@reddit
No.
mthomas1217@reddit
I share with my kids and husband and they share with me but that’s all. My kids share with all their friends and I find it weird lol
EntrepreneurLow4380@reddit
So much ick going on here. Coworkers we're talking about here, not even spouse/loved one?? Oh hell no.
myrdraal2001@reddit
I don't even know how to do that but always keep my GPS off unless I'm using the maps to travel. Nobody needs to know my location and I really don't want to know theirs.
Usalien1@reddit
They all have TikTok. If the Chinese know what they're doing all the time, why shouldn't their friends? They're incredibly naive and just don't get that there are really, really bad people in the world. They haven't experienced an existential threat, as we did. Sure, we had an ocean as a buffer, but we knew what was going on in the USSR, and East Germany, where privacy was more valuable and scarce than even we can imagine. Hopefully they never find out, but chances are they are going to.
airconditionersound@reddit
I can see doing it occasionally with people I trust, but I wouldn't leave it on all the time. I need privacy.
Just_Another_Day_926@reddit
Have it for my family. Wife and adult kids. Why do the kids do it? They are on my phone plan.
But it is more for convenience like when we are meeting up, travelling together, etc.
But I would not do that with friends, etc. except temporarily for a specific event/activity.
IllTemperedOldWoman@reddit
I don't share locations. I think my brain was permanently altered by driving between two places and only having pay phones in between
Dramatic-Pass-1555@reddit
Location sharing is off and only gets turned on when directions are needed and then back off. While in a relationship, all I ever asked them was tell me where you're going and I did the same. That way if anything ever happened and one of us disappeared, the other knew where to start looking. I didn't care how they got there or how many stops they made or how long it took to get there. It comes from knowing people that have disappeared and knowing just how quickly things can go south while trying to not to be a controlling paranoid ass!
de_kitt@reddit
I share my location with my husband. I just asked him and he said he occasionally looks to see where I am. When he’s on his way home or I am expecting him somewhere, I’ll sometimes check to see how far away he is. Mostly, we don’t track each other, but I don’t care if he knows where I am and sometimes it’s helpful to know how long it will take for him to get to me.
If I’m meeting someone and we are trying to find each other, I’ll share my location temporarily.
writtenwordyes@reddit
I don't want anyone to know anything about me ESPECIALLY my location. They need to get a life
gettocrybaby44@reddit
I remember rolling through on everyone on the weekends in the 90s. You just congregated. Such was life
ImmySnommis@reddit
My Z daughter does with her female friends.
My wife and I? LOL hell no.
jaggedlittlemissy@reddit
Mine location is always off. On everything. I'm not cool with being tracked by anyone but my 10 year old son. I'd let him follow me if he actually wanted to. :)
YKINMKBYKIOK@reddit
I'm not going to lead you to my hookup.
OlderNerd@reddit
I use life 360 with my wife and son, but that's it
buckinanker@reddit
lol my parents didn’t know where I was when I was 16 why the hell would I want anyone knowing where I am as an adult??
Me25TX@reddit
Isn’t this the opposite of GenX behavior?
MMXVA@reddit
Yea, yes it is.
Beautiful-Height3103@reddit
Why would anyone do that lol
Mountain_Alfalfa_245@reddit
We share our locations as a family.
Our sons, who are 20 and 18 years old, share this with their friends. I find it odd because, growing up, they hated that they had to have Life360 on their phones. Now that they are adults, they enjoy seeing where all their friends are. Its obviously acceptable because they have a very large circle of friends sharing locations with each other.
GenxMomToAll@reddit
My daughters (17 and 19) added me to our own little Life360 circle but have all their friends on there too. My oldest lives off campus for school 2 hours away and while I cannot imagine her being out without her boyfriend, it's also reassuring AF to know when she gets home on the weekends. I gave up on any concept of real privacy online a long time ago, so the location sharing doesn't bother me
Mountain_Alfalfa_245@reddit
I feel the same! I have boys but its very comforting to know if I'm worried, I can text one of their friends and know my kiddos are safe.
docsiege@reddit
i never share my location. i rarely turn on my ringer. i try to make my phone just for me and not a conduit for others to bother me.
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
It strikes me as weird. Since the later than early/core X gens tend to get so caught up with fear talk and talking about stalkers and creepy and cringe and how this and that absolute nothing is upsetting or sus and so on and always jumping to worst idea and acting paranoid and then something that actually is maybe weird they suddenly have no problem with LOL.
Justdonedil@reddit
My Gen X brother and his wife pay for Life 360.
Myself and husband just share location on Google maps. I also have 1 child (the 22 year old that still lives at home. She downloaded Google maps to her iphone just to track mom and dad). 2 of my friends, a niece (also iphone) and my mom with locations shared.
Our kids all have iphones and stalk each other that way, plus the youngest and her cousins have snapchat they share locations through as well.
jondes99@reddit
My wife’s sister and her husband track their teenage daughters on Life 360. I can’t imagine how much more boring my youth would have been.
Turbulent-Leg3678@reddit
My daughter and I have one another on location sharing. But she’s on a different continent.
SirMellencamp@reddit
I share my location with my wife and kids and my brother. It doesn’t bother me that they know where I am
Impossible_Diet6992@reddit
I have younger coworkers who do this too. At work they log into their google accounts to do their jobs. Personally, I don’t want google knowing my every move or website. Location services on my phone are off unless I give it permission. I use Duck Duck Go as my web browser and delete every time I log out. I have barely started using Apple Air tags because I keep forgetting where I put stuff and I hide them in my car as a tracker in case my car gets stolen. It came in handy recently bc my car was towed so I knew it was at a tow yard not stolen
Internal-Fun-5411@reddit
I’m am already too available, stupid phone, I’m not going to LoJack myself as well.
microgal_56@reddit
A friend of mine wanted me to get Life360 because he was worried about me being in LA all by myself. I kept it on for that, but as soon as I got (safely) home I turned it off. Before I met my SO I'd let friends and family know where I was, but they'd text to make sure I was OK. On my phone I do have my location on, but it's just for me. I don't share it with anyone other than Google (so maybe I do share my location with everyone 😂). It's kind of fun to see all the places I've been, since I travel a lot for work.
Mom2Leiathelab@reddit
My kids and their friends do because they’re in college in a big city, so it’s good for safety or seeing your friends are all studying at the Student Union so you mosey over there. Of course it causes as much harm as good because you can see your friend you were supposed to hang out with is actually over at your frenemy’s place, or your boyfriend’s girl best friend has been over at his place a LOT.
We have Family Sharing through our Apple accounts so I have briefly checked my husband and oldest kids’, but it’s typically “he went to pick up dinner 45 minutes ago and I’m starving, where is he?!”, so I’ll check it rather than calling him when I’m all hangry. Or my college kid hasn’t texted me in a few days (we’re really close and text a lot) so I check to make sure he’s somewhere he should be (on campus or at work) and not in a car trunk somewhere. It’s never, like, for fun.
Electrical_Beyond998@reddit
With FindMy I share with my 26 year old, my best friend since sixth grade (she’s back home in TN and I live in MD), and my friend across the street.
With Life360 I share with my husband and my other three kids.
And not a day goes by that I don’t check where someone is. Especially my friend across the street. There have been so many times I’ll be somewhere and she will text. Like if I’m at Aldi she will text me and ask me to grab her some milk “while you’re there”. We have both decided we are just nosy af.
dare_me_to_831@reddit
I don’t remember how it started, probably one of my kids were traveling & they agreed to share their location in case something happened. They never turned it off. Now, all five kids and one DIL shares their location not with just me, but with each other. They don’t show up where the others are at, but if we’re meeting up as a family traveling to the same destination, it’s likely someone is watching to see how far out the others are. Just tonight my son was watching my location to know which train to catch to the game (they needed to know which one I made it to). I can see how creepy it might be to others, but no one in our family seems to be bothered by it.
crissyb65@reddit
Hubby, daughter, and my sister share location through Find My Phone. Safety reasons. We have dimension in the family and we live a distance from one another. Get used to it now so if one of us gets confused at where we are, another can help. God forbid. Also, it makes it easier to know when to put the dogs in the house or not let them out because someone is close to arriving. They are insane and won’t stop running to cars. >.<
Gibabo@reddit
My wife and I share our location with each other, and that’s it. I’d never share it with anybody else.
brandnewspacemachine@reddit
Yeah my entire family has a Life 360, I like knowing where they are and they're not sneaking around, they don't even want to. I let them do whatever they want and go wherever they want as long as I know where they are and when they're going to be home it's fine. Also I like being localizable by anybody in my family at any time in case I'm in any trouble.
who-waht@reddit
What? No. I mean, I guess if something happened to me while I was out jogging my husband could log onto my computer and my garmin account to try and figure out where I was. But other than that, no. We don't track each other. We don't track our adult children. We don't even track the 17yo.
ritchie70@reddit
I do it with my wife. We can see each other. I think I shared location to my sister a few years ago. It makes life easier.
Practical-Tea-3337@reddit
Nope.
Piratical88@reddit
I have it for my kids, partner & me. I watch too much true crime, and I’m paranoid about my kids’ safety. But they don’t mind, and they’re teens. If my friends did that I would not be ok with it.
summonthegods@reddit
My otherwise easy Gen Jones spouse got mad at me once because he was curious when I’d be home (“when I get there” was my answer) and he looked at the car’s app to see its location. He noticed I spent longer at lunch with a friend than I had planned to, and he complained about it. I shut that shit down immediately and reminded him that I’m in my 50s and would come and go as I damn well pleased. He reverted to his normal “whatever” self, and although I gave him a pass, it raised my hackles and we did some tune-up therapy because NO.
requiemguy@reddit
No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.
Sufficient_Stop8381@reddit
Never not ever. Ever. That Life360 bullsht can take a hike, too. Some people do it for “safety” but I’ll take that chance. Besides, if a bad guy is going to do something, an app isn’t gonna save you.
MsMameDennis@reddit
Absolutely not.
NervousAddie@reddit
I’ve been dating a millennial and one of the first things she asked on one of our first dates was if I could share my location with her. I tried but I was going over a mountain pass without the reception to do it. I left it at that, weeks ago.
Rude_Veterinarian639@reddit
If I had a buck for every time someone was irked because I didn't answer a phone call, I could probably retire.
Man, some people get so upset in arms about the volume of my ring tone
iamamovieperson@reddit
Who has the battery for that?!?!?
Carnivorous_Mower@reddit
I have location on on Snapchat. I have a friend who travels a lot and it's always useful to know where he is in case we want to catch up. Also have friends in other countries, so it's good to know where they are in the world.
libationsnation@reddit
always have location off. i dated someone for a while who always shared her location with me... i thought it odd...
UnderlightIll@reddit
As a Millennial who has a spouse and all... Never. I'll let my spouse know where I am headed and about how long I am going to be gone (true crime has paranoid brain rot lol) but the idea of tracking your partner or friends is so weird. The only reasons I see for it are:
Online dating if you are meeting new people.
If my spouse and I were traveling separately for safety. Otherwise I don't need to really know. I trust him and he trusts me.
TheRateBeerian@reddit
I'm not into sharing anything, at all, ever
raletti@reddit
I'm trying to remember how we all used to meet up. I guess I would call a friend and say, "wanna meet up here at this time?". Then they would call someone. Then they would call a couple of people. Then someone would call you, "Hey, we're meeting up here at this time." "Yeah, I know."
AcousticWord93@reddit
I had a coworker with boundary issues BEFORE she told me I should get an iPhone and turn on my location so she'd always know where I was. She's young Millennial/Elder Gen Z. I let her know that would never happen.
Cheska1234@reddit
Our generation was brought up ignored and untracked even by our parents when we were in grade school. They had to be reminded to see if we were home at 10pm. Ofc we’re going to be weirded out by this.
MiMiinOlyWa@reddit
Here's an even more GenX answer than the question - Maybe? Do I have that on my android? 🤣 Seriously
elijuicyjones@reddit
Hell. Fucking. No. Way.
In_The_End_63@reddit
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me (Official Music Video) - YouTube
modernhedgewitch@reddit
My family, immediate and my dad’s side/brother etc. but our friend group does have one, at least the wives do, and since I’ve only just moved back after a year, I’ve managed to avoid so far. I’m not opposed, just not sure it’s necessary.
SoFlaSun@reddit
My daughter and I share our location with each other. I have one friend that I share my location with if I am going any distance from home as backup in case something happens but turn it off as soon as I am back home.
IllogicalPenguin-142@reddit
I started sharing my location with my mom when my stepdad died. I felt she needed something to focus on besides him. She could see me going to and from work every day. But I don’t really like it. It feels creepy.
I will sometimes share my location with my wife. For instance, if we go to the mall and split up. The location allows us to find each other again.
egordoniv@reddit
My family (those who don't have clandestine tendencies) share locations. Also my closest friends. I think it's glorious to stay so connected. We've very much enjoyed it these last ten-ish years.
fabrictm@reddit
We have location sharing between my wife and I and with the parents/in-laws
jIdiosyncratic@reddit
Hell no. If you are not in the office you are away and they don't need to be showing up there. If you are older they might assume you will pay for them.
Biishep1230@reddit
I don’t understand this. We use to either get on our bikes or drive the car around until we found people. It was much more of an adventure. You never knew where you would end up and who with, but it was always fun. The journey is the best part.
AnnotatedLion@reddit
My GenX friend tracks his whole family and honestly I think its weird as hell.
Southernstorm256@reddit
Ewww. No. My location is always off.
iamrava@reddit
i raised two daughters and we’ve -always- used shared locations on our devices. they are 25 and 28 now and we still use it. and yes… they do it with their friends.
its definitely become more normalized over the last few years, but some of us have done it for a decade or more.
nermalstretch@reddit
I turned it off. Once I shared my location with a friend who I would be meeting later but he was early and came and found me drinking a coffee. It scared the living daylights out of me when he approached. haha.. I just didn’t want that to happen again.
WinterMedical@reddit
Share with family. My husband and kids can see me and I them. We don’t really use it much. I also can see where my elderly mom is. As long as people are respectful, it’s not an issue for us.
Apprehensive-Log8333@reddit
I don't have anyone to share my location with but if I did it would be super boring. "Oh she's at work. Now she's at home .25 miles away from work....ten hours have passed and she's back at work....GUYS! SHE WENT TO DOLLAR TREE! (calls me) Dude why are you at Dollar Tree? Oh your supervisor dragged you there? You're going right back to work, right? And then home? Cool cool"
Gwynnavere@reddit
Gross no. Unless it's temporary while you're out somewhere with people or your significant other, no.
Chanandler_Bong_01@reddit
That's a hard no from me on the location sharing.
BUT....if I had that technology in my peak social years 16-21, I'm sure I would have used it. My pager was my life back then, lol.
Due-Principle9112@reddit
My SO and I rarely even talk on the phone or text each other. I keep my location on, but private, for my own purposes. Like how many miles I drive, walk, etc. The only way that anyone has access to any of my personal or financial accounts is if I go missing. My SO and my oldest daughter know where I store that info, and can access it if they ever need to. I think location sharing is weird. It doesn't make sense to me. If I want someone to know where I am, I'll tell them. I would usually prefer not to be found, though.
GenXella@reddit
My husband and kids don't even get my location let alone friends and coworkers.😂
SouxsieBanshee@reddit
My teenagers do this with their friends. They all have each other’s locations, not just sharing locations on their iPhones but also on the different apps. I just found out that they also use Life360 for each other. My oldest daughter and her boyfriend have it set to notify each other whenever they leave the house and school. I think it’s weird and stalkery.
Average_Random_Bitch@reddit
Yeah, big ass nope for me. In very rare occasions, yes, but maybe once a year rare.
And uninvited guests are on my top five of things I hate most in the world. The casual drop by is no bueno.
1st_sailonsilvergirl@reddit
It never in a million years occurred to me to use any location sharing on my phone. I wouldn't ask my husband to share his location either. It's unthinkable to distract myself with looking at my phone to follow where my husband goes. Why?! I've got work to do, a business, a house to keep clean, a demanding cat, a garden to keep alive in drought. And people have time to track where people go?!
My sister-in-law who is Gen X and niece and nephew who are Gen Z track each other 24/7. They're living in different countries, but still, they're at home or they're at work or shopping or going to the movies or whatever, why does everyone need to know? You can track if a phone is by a living room sofa or next to the bed. WTF?! Sharing that was bizarre to me.
Tech has worn down people's privacy in exchange for these "benefits," and people are primed for tech to take more and more data without paying people for such profitable data about themselves. And I'm in the data business. I'd like to be paid for the personal data I produce.
exscapegoat@reddit
Yeah. I’ll location share when I’m driving, I generally drive alone. I used it for a family surprise party and let the host know I shared location. If I’m in traffic but can’t easily pull over, they can see where I am.
I also location share with friends or family if we’re meeting up. I met up with a friend in Hudson Yards and the place was tricky to find so location shared so she could see where I was and find it more easily
I’d also location share if I was living with someone. Unfortunately there have been occasional terrorist incidents, bad accidents and other incidents. Sometimes it can be hard to get a text or call through. Being able to see where I am could put someone’s mind at ease in a situation like that.
Pink_Floyd_Chunes@reddit
Nope.
Graphite-and-Glitter@reddit
As someone who has been stalked and had law enforcement ban said stalker from my place of employment: hell to the no.
Oatmeal_Savage19@reddit
Never have it on - I don't need to see where people are and no one needs to see where I am
RCA2CE@reddit
No - I don’t want to track someone, that feels weird.
I also don’t care who knows where I am - it’s me looking at where they are that gives me the creeps
Relevant_Wrangler830@reddit
Is this only an IPhone feature, or does Android have it?
boredtxan@reddit
you can do it on Google maps
Relevant_Wrangler830@reddit
Gotcha. Thanks
jtphilbeck@reddit
You will never know my location unless I am standing before you.
OrbAndSceptre@reddit
Location services only for my immediate family. Anyone else is super creepy.
BreakfastBeerz@reddit
I location share with family 100% of the time. I have location sharing with some friends, but I only ever turn it on if there is a reason.
emilythequeen1@reddit
A bit of confession, I stalk my youngest three kids.
Not really of course, but I do check on them.
They’re 21, 19, and 17.
Before I go to bed at night, I look where their little dot is on the map, and feel happy that they’re at home, school or work, or with their friends. Maybe it’s creepy, or just my last bit of control before I let them go.
Part of this is because as they got older I couldn’t really rest completely until I knew they were home safe.
Also, I let them stalk me too. So they always know where their creepy mom is.
JBarretta01@reddit
If there is a digital equivalent to Get Off My Lawn I'd like to know what it is
boyracer93@reddit
I would not watch a show focused on Jayden, Aiden, and Hazel.
Antoine is the only character with any depth.
BCCommieTrash@reddit
If I'm on my way to friends or family, I location share with the relevant people for the duration.
If I have my sister's kids, sister gets a location share.
sunniblu03@reddit
I feel like they like to hang out with each other impromptu and I just can’t do that. I got to get my mind right for socializing.
PoopPant73@reddit
Location off unless I’m hunting in the mountains then it’s on.
Distinct_Plankton_82@reddit
I just found out about this. It’s a big thing for them (seems to be girls more than boys). Apparently it’s considered really rude to turn it off.
Like what the actual fuck?
I guess to a certain extent we had it, in that people would sometimes show up at your door if they were in the neighborhood, but honestly, I’m glad that shit has gone away.
Harlequin80@reddit
I feel like this is massively overblown. I share my location with my wife and my kids and they share theirs with me. I also have a few mates that I can see their location and vice versa as well.
My wife and kids is great, as it lets me know exactly when to start cooking dinner so it's ready as they get home. I mean sure, I could ask them to text me, but they will forget sometimes or something will come up. Much better for my home automation system to say "Wife has left dance school" and now I know it's 25 mins til dinner time.
As for my mates, I don't get to see them anywhere near as much as I want to. Life, work, family, chores, same old story. So if I'm in the city for a meeting and have a gap I'll check if any of them are nearby and drop them a message asking if they fancied a coffee. Just because I know where they are doesn't mean I'm going to randomly drop in on them. I know where they live, I wouldn't just drop in there either.
GenXrules69@reddit
I still think of the phone as a benefit for the caller.
Bastyra2016@reddit
Except that is how we grew up. Go to a friends house and ring the bell to see if they are home. Cruise by the pool or the park to find your crew. I have it turned on but only for my sister as I travel a lot and I like someone knowing where I am. There isn’t a need to give others access as they can text me and ask me where I am. No one has dropped by in over 15 years. I kind of miss that spontaneity
Reeeeallly@reddit
It was fun! Especially after I got my first car. You see Marla's car at Tastee-Freez, you pop in for a soda and say hi to everyone. I miss that spontaneity as well.
foilrat@reddit
There are two times I will location share:
As a joke when my partner asks where I am, and I'm almost there.
When I'm on a motorcycle trip, I'll leave it on. If I end up in a ditch, at least she'll have a good starting point.
There was one time when we (partner and I) took my mom to a foreign country. We did share location for the trip, just in case.
Other then that...SWF vibes, and creepy as fuck.
meipsus@reddit
I had just read this in another sub. It's funny how each generation sees what the other considers normal as stalkerish and creepy.
WhoKnew50@reddit
I like knowing where my family and parents are and that’s it.
boredtxan@reddit
have a college age son and he's on of the few not tracked by his parents.
Nicetillnot@reddit
Fuck no. No one kept tabs on me as a feral child, whyvstart now.
Roguefem-76@reddit
I feel like that's an Apple thing, and I'm a sworn Android user, so I'm not familiar with it. How does it work exactly? Do you have to approve someone to let them track you. Can you block a particular person from seeing where you are?
If those were the cases then it might be okay, but if it's just something anybody can do, then helllll no.
Beefgrits@reddit
I do avoid cloud services, but I'm already giving up the location privacy by using the mobile device in the first place, so I do use the find my device stuff and I do share location with people that I would be pleasantly surprised to see in a random encounter.
Ecthelion510@reddit
I share locations with my husband because I'm frequently driving by myself late at night, and if I'm not home when I say I'm going to get home, he can check to see if I'm en route or in a ditch. That's it. (And this was my decision, he didn't ask it of me, nor has he ever abused the privilege. As far as everyone else in the universe is concerned: they don't need to know where I am.
I_Did_The_Thing@reddit
Absolutely not ever.
SnatchAddict@reddit
I do it with my wife. I don't have friends in my 50s to share it with.
Park-D@reddit
Same here.
DomainStripper@reddit
Aside from the stalking aspects it isn't a good cybersecurity practice. All location access is turned off.
Fishy1911@reddit
I don't share my location with anyone for any reason. I barely tell my wife what trailhead I might go to. I get creeped out that my friends track their kids. I don't want to know where anyone is, and don't want anyone to know where I am. I give the "I should be home Saturday night, but don't worry until Sunday night. And I'm headed here..."
JanaT2@reddit
No way leave me alone and get off my lawn goddammit
Iwentforalongwalk@reddit
Never . I don't want anyone to know what I'm doing. It's just weird
Noirjyre@reddit
If I want ppl to know where I am I’ll tell them. The rest of that can piss off.
AlaskanMinnie@reddit
Eh back before cell phones, in a small town, if you wanted to find someone, you drove around and looked for their car parked in front of a house/store ... this is their tech version of that
fjvgamer@reddit
I'd totally do with with my friends when I was young. I grew up before cell phones and life was endlessly roaming/driving around looking for people or a party.
I'd not do it with everyone, but my circle would have done it. We hung out every night.
Pitiful-Werewolf4173@reddit
Happy cake day! As to the original question.. from one Gen X to the next, location sharing is WEIRD.
dancegoddess1971@reddit
My oldest does this with his friend group. They tease him for driving around aimlessly after work. He complains that they call him if he gets too close to their locations without popping in. I never watched his location because I was raised that people like privacy. I guess that changed at some point.
jpkmets@reddit
Never
absolved@reddit
This sounds horrifying. Please, do not show up to where I am, I beg you lol
Final-Beginning3300@reddit
Absolutely not. 🙄
Linfinity8@reddit
My kids have it, and my best friend has it. I doubt any of them even remember, but it makes me Feel like someone would be able to find me if I went missing.
UncleFlip@reddit
Nope
I assume there's an app for that. We don't use it. Wife and I are normally together, but when we aren't I guess it could be handy. Just never thought of it.
And I don't think our adult kids would be interested.
No way with anyone outside that circle.
OkCalbrat@reddit
Oh Hell No! I'm a total introvert and would freak the fuck out if my friends were constantly showing up unannounced! I like my solitude & I don't need to hear crap from other ppl about where I go!
BulljiveBots@reddit
We used to call that “stalking”.
EcelecticDragon@reddit
Oh hells no. I am way too private for that bullchit.
Laylay_theGrail@reddit
I have it on with my husband and my adult kids (who voluntarily share). Daughter is in another country and time zone, so I check if she’s home before I call.
One son turned his off for a few months and I never mentioned it but it’s back on now🤷♀️
Taodragons@reddit
The wildest thing I've heard lately is since my daughter is the FNG (Fucking New Guy) at her job they make her do coffee runs and they all just hand her their debit cards........
ZetaWMo4@reddit
Only with my kids and my husband. I offered to stop sharing location with my kids as they were going off to college but they refused. They apparently enjoy knowing where their parents and siblings are. I’m pretty sure they all share their location with their partners as well.
gringo-go-loco@reddit
I share it but only for safety reasons. I work remote so I’m 95% of the time at home. Lol
general-illness@reddit
This is why every town has a bar called “The Office” 😜
Certain-Ad-5298@reddit
These folks also monitor how long ago a text was opened without a response and all sorts of boundary defying anti autonomy behaviors. I’m wholly ok not being hip to the new ways.
prettybirdie_714@reddit
I still go places without my phone.
rubbish_heap@reddit
I take it but when I get home it goes by the door with my wallet and keys. No carrying it around the house. Some of my friends/family I would swear it never leaves their hands.
SprinklesWilling470@reddit
I'm old enough to remember when people just went places, never called, never checked in and eventually they just showed back up. 🧓 Having said all that, I am at an age where I would not go anywhere at least without carrying a mobile phone with me.
Purple_Pansy_Orange@reddit
Mine are turned on while I’m hiking and traveling That’s it. No one needs to know what I’m doing.
NegScenePts@reddit
Nah, not a chance.
Beautiful_Rhubarb@reddit
it's not control or stalkery if you agree and think it's fun. No one is forcing anyone to location share, but the people that do it are fine with it. I do with my family for a variety of reasons and quite honestly sick of being called a stalker. I also use other apps for locations to help with home automation routines, which is another thing I find that crochety old gen-xers tend to pooh pooh lol My kids like knowing where we are.
ArdenM@reddit
Ringer off, notifications off, location sharing off, read receipts off. I am the master of my own domain and if *I* want to be in touch, I will be. If I want you to know where I'm going and want to see you, I'll invite you. The End. -Extroverted GenX
fraurodin@reddit
Fuck no. My phone is also on silent 24/7, idgaf. I remember the pure joy of tooling around different cities and counties, jamming to music, with or without friends, no one knowing where you were
RidiculousDear@reddit
Fuck no.
Joe_Early_MD@reddit
Yeah, no we aren’t doing that.
Zerly@reddit
I share my location with three people. I honestly don’t care if they know where I am and it’s an added safety feature. I’d be surprised if they randomly looked up where I was, never mind regularly
Silent-Row-9684@reddit
I’m single, so I’ve shared my location with 4 friends. I have a couple of theirs. It’s a safety thing. I’ll share location with friends/family for an hour or the end of the day, in case we’re meeting somewhere and can’t find each other. But it’s not like we constantly checking each others locations. That’s just weird 🤣
Valuable_Tomorrow882@reddit
I share with my husband & vice versa. Since I have a long commute with super crappy traffic, it is always a crap shoot whether it will take me 45 mins or 2 hours. He can check my location if he’s wondering where I am. Vice versa, he has a more sporadic schedule and I like to gauge if there’s enough time for me to take a shower in peace before he gets home and is going to want the only bathroom in our house.
Some people see location sharing as stalkery and controlling, but that is literally all we use it for.
Adventurerinmymind@reddit
People showing up where I am is one of my biggest nightmares, so no, no locations. Phone is on silent always. Text me, don't call and leave a message, and I'll get back to you
realist2920@reddit
My daughter and her roommates share locations but it a safety thing. Early 20s, college town...Hey, Kayla meeting that new guy and she's not home...why's her location showing the garbage dump? ...
That kind of thing....
GogglesPisano@reddit
I share my location with my wife and my kids (both in their 20s), but it’s a safety thing rather than a social thing.
muphasta@reddit
I don't share my location with my wife and kids, let alone acquaintances/coworkers/strangers.
Only person that needs to know where I am is me, and I have WAZE for that!
Pantokraterix@reddit
I do it if I am buying something on FB marketplace or kijiji or meeting a sales opportunity but I turn it off when I am safe
Music19773@reddit
Not me. Unless it’s an emergency with close friends or family, I can’t see any reason I would ever turn on location sharing. I don’t want people to know where I am or be able to reach me unless I am up for interaction with others. The introvert + the drained educator in me just wants peace and quiet after I leave work.
Resident-Fox6758@reddit
Only my grandkids have my location share. It works well for me. They come over when I’m home for food or a side
Jimathomas@reddit
I only share location with my family. No one else needs to know where I am. Ever.
assylemdivas@reddit
We have our location services on. I have a disabled adult daughter who is very social. We felt safer knowing where she was, and a few times found her in bad places, where we had to go get her. My husband and I just feel safer knowing someone can find us if something bad happens.
DoLittlest@reddit
Fuck no.
michelle48073@reddit
I am border gen x/boomer (1966) mine is on for my wife and 2 friends who have a cabin in the woods. They like to atv and they know they can count on me to come ‘a runnin’ if anything happens.
TruCarMa@reddit
Nope - I still yearn for the days when only doctors and drug dealers had pagers, for gods’ sake.
justagirlexploring@reddit
Only with my spouse and children.
My youngest child is GenZ and shares her location with us and a select group of close friends but they don’t live local to each other.
I_Dont_Like_Rice@reddit
I spent my career in IT and where I am is nobody's business but mine. And I may or may not respond to a text within 72 hours. I don't want anyone thinking I'm held hostage by a damned phone.
Beruthiel999@reddit
Hell no
ColonelBourbon@reddit
Logical and safe, just gotta pick your people
face_eater_5000@reddit
Just my wife and I share our locations, but since we now work from home full time it's kind of irrelevant.
throw123454321purple@reddit
Only when I’m getting picked up at the airport or taking a trip alone.
MyDadBod_2021@reddit
My partner and I share location on Snap, but we are LDR, so we aren't showing up at each others place. We do it more for travel
wonderful_lock_130@reddit
Not into it. I'm not grouchy or anything. Just not into being tracked like that.
Right now, there aren't many people I'd want to see showing up in places I'm at, lol. So my "sharing" list would be rather small.
I'm not 100% opposed to ever doing it, but they'd have to be a hell of a good friend.
No, it's not stalkerish if you agree to share your location. It's stalkerish if you don't.
BrownDogEmoji@reddit
No one needs to know where the fuck I am.
Bunnyfartz@reddit
No.
My wife has the location app with our son but I declined to join their little group. That's creepy.
NotACongressman@reddit
So creepy. No location sharing ever. If I want you to know where I am I will tell you.
SlipstreamSleuth@reddit
I share with my nephew, my 80+ year old in-laws, husband, and alcoholic brother (so I can keep tabs on him). Also share with certain friends only when we go on vacation so we can see where everyone is, where to meet up, etc. Sometimes when taking a trip, I share with others.
TBH, I'm boring, and don't really give AF if people know where I am.
Thirty_Helens_Agree@reddit
On family road trips - Grandma and Grandpa are just past St. Louis, Auntie Katie and the kids are ten miles behind them, etc. Uncle Dave is already at the hotel.
That shit is super helpful. ANY other circumstance? Forget it.
BigFatBlackCat@reddit
I think it’s good they keep an eye on each other.
Objective-Holiday597@reddit
Share my location? That’s one hard no
stopcallingmeSteve_@reddit
I don't like it. I share with my kids and they're the only people I snap so they're on that map too, but broadly no. I remember if you saw a bunch of BMX bikes that's where everyone was. I pulled up in my sick ass Kuwahara and it was time for ball, baby!
LeoMarius@reddit
Nope
IndependentMethod312@reddit
I only have locations for my kids, but mine are off and they only share with me and my husband, not with their friends. My husband and I don’t share with each other either.
MNGirlinKY@reddit
My spouse has my location (and I his) and that’s it.
This would be weird if I did it with my friends. I’m not going to go to the food truck or meet someone elsewhere because they are nearby.
HatRemov3r@reddit
Only my brother has my location just in case.
kalelopaka@reddit
No, I prefer that no one knows where I am at any given time. It’s bad enough that I carry around a personal gps with me everywhere.
chaseinger@reddit
absolutely not. if someone wants to know where i am they can ask me.
only exception: wilderness hikes. my ice gets my location. if i happen to have my phone turned on.
jessek@reddit
fuck no.
Sinsyne125@reddit
My wife and I share our locations through our phones -- mainly for safety reasons when traveling separately.
I share locations with friends if we happen to be traveling with each other in an area in which we are unfamiliar.
That's about it.
I don't know where my head would be at if I were younger and back in college or whatnot. It might be fun.
But, in middle age, I don't need to know where my friends are... I'm not just going to show up where my friends are at 11pm on a Tuesday and find an "instant party" happening. Those were fun days, but they are way in the rear-view mirror at this point.
HerNameIsVesper@reddit
Hell no.
bm1949@reddit
No shit. Why would you volunteer what's left of your privacy without a compelling reason?
hatetochoose@reddit
My kids, young women.
My good friend traveling solo overseas.
That was handy, because on a few occasions I could guide her to a location. Once I was able to guide her to a bus, because apparently they even suck in Europe.
microgiant@reddit
I'd like to believe I go places so interesting people would like to know, but I better hide my location.
That's not real. I'm at home, I'm at the grocery store, I'm... Yeah. Doesn't matter if I have location services on or off.
kalista08@reddit
I share my location with my immediate family when I travel by car, just as a safety precaution.
It eases my mother's anxiety to be able to check on my progress when i travel the 5 hours to her without my needing to be on my phone answering texts/calls while driving.
SomeCrazedBiker@reddit
Everyone knows I'm always home.
SHDrivesOnTrack@reddit
I turn it on using the iPhone feature to activate it only for a limited time, usually until the end of the day.
I do this when meeting up with a friend like "hey, lets meet up after the ball game for dinner at a pub" so we have some idea of when we might expect them to arrive without them having to text us updates. Or if 2 or 3 friends are all driving in separate cars to a location so we don't worry too much about getting separated, or know how long to wait because someone stopped for gas on the way. Also sometimes when out in the woods. (with someone not with us)
I don't keep it running all the time, for anyone.
zoot_boy@reddit
LOL - “you dead bro? Haven’t moved in 4 days??”
Retiree66@reddit
My adult children and I share our locations. Mainly just for fun. When I was teaching high school a few years ago, it was common for friend groups to share locations with each other, and a lot of families used the Life360 app.
FujiKitakyusho@reddit
I often go out without my phone because I'm wary of sharing my location with my network service provider and Google. To share it with individuals? Yeah, no.
MoonageDayscream@reddit
Our kid is the only one we track. Hubby works from home and I am a creature of habit so there's little to be gained by tracking us.
Adaminium@reddit
Where am I gonna be?! I’mma be where I’m at!
Mean_Fae@reddit
I used to play that game on FB when it first came out. Then i realized it was my worst nightmare.
B00bsmelikey@reddit
Did I order food? No? Not answering the door. Might even turn the volume up just enough so they can hear it but know it's not loud enough to drown out their knocking.
WillowFreak@reddit
I share with my adult kids. But the 3 of us hardly ever use it. It's there just in case.
TheGreatOpoponax@reddit
No just no, but hell no.
And if someone is about to kill me, that's fine. I've seen enough anyway.
Chai-Tea-Rex-2525@reddit
My kids do that with their friends.
I share location with my kids. Once, when I was entertaining a new lady friend at her house, they noted that I was in a new house. Not fun.
Eat_Your_Paisley@reddit
My daughter shared her location with us but I’m not sure if she did with her friends
apex_flux_34@reddit
I share with my wife, and she with me. My younger sister shares hers with me but I don't share with her.
IpsoFactoReacto@reddit
No, nope, no thank you
ZebraBorgata@reddit
Ugh, no. I’d hate that.
lavendergirl22@reddit
One of my coworkers said she and her husband don’t wear their wedding rings because they don’t like rings, but share their location with each other (I guess as a sign of their commitment).
MidwestAbe@reddit
I don't even track my teenage kids with location services. Why would I want "friends" to see where I am.
Coffey2828@reddit
I share location with my family but my sister who is younger, more millennial like, shares location with all her friends. My older cousins refuse to share locations even when they go out of town.
jefx2007@reddit
Fuck no.
luckyquail901@reddit
I only do it with my 19 yr old daughter.
sunshinelively@reddit
Same. She goes to the same college I attended - love seeing her there! Kinda makes me feel close to her. ❤️
Finding_Way_@reddit
Nope. Not at all. Not even sure I know how to do it.
And frankly, not sure that anybody cares where I am!
GoldStarGranny@reddit
I only do this with my elderly mom as she is very independent and likes to adventure alone but also is prone to falling and/or overestimating her physical abilities.
She also does forgetful old lady things like leaving her purse in coffee shops so it’s been helpful that way.
Devilimportluvr@reddit
I don't have enough friends for that. I know where both of my friends are
pinballrocker@reddit
I do it currently for trips with a bunch of friends. Also I female friend does it when she goes on solo hiking and road trips for safety concerns. Yeah, I was big on privacy for a long time until I gave up. It's a different world now, no sense living in the past.
Due-Coast-TX@reddit
Hell no!
VolupVeVa@reddit
i am with you. i've used it exactly twice with my youngest when she was traveling alone. having it permanently on skeeves me out. plus everyone already knows exactly where to find me (alone, in my room, listening to the cure with the curtains drawn).
InfectedSteve@reddit
Hell no. Location always off. Phone in dev-mode, permissions revoked from everything and apps uninstalled that I do not want on my phone by default.
For the younger generations, this is the 'bikes in the yard' equivalent I think with the location sharing.
Weird-Yesterday-8129@reddit
Location services only get turned on when I'm in a strange city and need to find a dispensary and a Popeyes. Also reddit is my only social media.
gotchafaint@reddit
Who knew George Orwell’s Big Brother would turn out to be our own kids. They have so sense of privacy or consent to privacy.
Djragamuffin77@reddit
Eff that. I work hard to have as small of a digital footprint as possible.
JohanBroad@reddit
Ugh! NO! I have location turned off on my phone, I don't 'check in' at fast food joints, or post pictures of my dinner.
You are correct. Sometimes I want solitude. I don't like the idea of someone showing up when I'm eating lunch because they saw I was there on their phone and decided to come and chat.
If I had kids, I'd have their phones tracked up until they're 16 or so, but I wouldn't even look at it unless I had cause for concern.
tdawg-1551@reddit
We do within the family, but I don't do that with anyone else. Not that I have friends who would be interested, but no way I'm going to share that with others.
CoastalKtulu@reddit
GenZ seems to have absolutely no sense of privacy and security. In my opinion, I don't think they believe it's necessary. Whenever a phone number is required to be entered into a work database, it's usually best to provide an alternate phone number, especially if you have a landline phone.
The stalker generation can "go fish", as far as I'm concerned.
Born_Ad_8370@reddit
Immediate family only. I would not enjoy someone just showing up where I am.
CarcajouCanuck@reddit
Only when I'm backpacking.
MaximumJones@reddit
The government knows where we are even with location turned off.
I sure as hell don't want my friends knowing too.
midoxvx@reddit
The only reason i share my location is for my friends who are waiting for me somewhere get an ETA of my arrival and that maybe i had to do 5 times total in my life.
Other than that, hell no.
sd_glokta@reddit
That's how they get ya!
RedPlasticDog@reddit
Absolutely not.
Crazy gen-z folks