It's really remarkable to see so many otherwise rational people surrendering their privacy so quickly and so easily. If everyone were honest, they would admit that there is no good reason to know the location of anyone every minute of every day...other than being nosey and having some type of neurosis.

How, in the name of all things holy, did the human race ever survive prior to the last 20 years?

Put down the smart phones people. Step away from "my precious", and do not, under any circumstances, give one to a child. Ever.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
It's really remarkable to see so many otherwise rational people surrendering their privacy so quickly and so easily. If everyone were honest, they would admit that there is no good reason to know the location of anyone every minute of every day...other than being nosey and having some type of neurosis.

How, in the name of all things holy, did the human race ever survive prior to the last 20 years?

Put down the smart phones people. Step away from "my precious", and do not, under any circumstances, give one to a child. Ever.

Times have changed so much, I tend do be the anti-phone type, only because everyone is driving or just staring at them all the time, or supposed to be working instead of texting.
As far as tracking family, that's up to each individual.
Cell phones are great for emergencies, no doubt, but I think they are over used.

Gustofer-
I don’t think anyone is saying that they’re monitoring every minute of the day. No one has time for that. But when you have family that may need help if they get into trouble, that’s when it becomes important.
To me, it’s a lot like medical advances. I question people who don’t use the drugs we’ve developed to help cure illnesses.
As mentioned multiple times, the sharing app can be turned on and off at will. And I’m not saying it can’t be turned into a harness, but that’s up to us to manage as individuals.
God helps those who help themselves, in a manner of speaking.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
It's really remarkable to see so many otherwise rational people surrendering their privacy so quickly and so easily. If everyone were honest, they would admit that there is no good reason to know the location of anyone every minute of every day...other than being nosey and having some type of neurosis.

It is as I tried to explain. One end of the spectrum is paranoia or obsessive compulsive illness. That's what you described.

For most of us it is a safety or convenience. I won't text while driving, and even prefer not to use the voice function while driving. My wife has every right to know where I am, and there is no loss of privacy if she pings my phone to see if I am headed home yet from an errand.

The other end of the spectrum is hiding information by someone doing something their (reasonable adult) spouse would be unhappy about. Cheating, drinking, at the horse races, etc. Flat refusing your reasonable spouse's request to access information is guaranteed to destroy trust.

I believe such requests would be infrequent in a healthy relationship.

Carefully guarding information which should be innocuous is a huge red flag that something undesirable is going on.

My wife might check my location to see if I have passed the grocery store on my way home. If I have not passed there yet, she might contact me to ask me to pick something up.

Using location is less intrusive to driving than a text or phone call asking whether I have passed the grocery yet.

Ring.....

"Hey, can you swing by Pricechopper and pick up some broccoli?"

Done. No need to know the lat and long of where they are. None.

It is an inherent lack of trust to want to track people. You have no right to know. You are stalking. That is, in some jurisdictions, illegal.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:

Ring.....

"Hey, can you swing by Pricechopper and pick up some broccoli?"

That might work pretty well for people who are not hearing impaired.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
It's really remarkable to see so many otherwise rational people surrendering their privacy so quickly and so easily.

I have no secrets from my wife. I don't believe she has any from me. So I don't regard my location sharing with her an invasion of my privacy.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
If everyone were honest, they would admit that there is no good reason to know the location of anyone every minute of every day...

Several of us have mentioned several reasons we share location data with our loved ones. None of them have been to know the locations of one another every minute of every day.

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Put down the smart phones people.

I use my smart phone, either directly or via my smart watch, every single day. They are tools. Tools I happen to find to be exceedingly useful.

So, no: I will not be putting them down anytime soon.

Could I survive without it? Of course I could. There are a lot of aspects of modern life I could survive without.

The question is: Why would I want to if I don't have to?