Life 360 and Risky Drive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are crazy. If you need to track your kid this closely there are better ways to do it. Life 360 is nothing more than paid pat on the back for parents. It's a tool to make people feel like they are doing something they should be doing. It is a placebo.

when my daughter is out in town and had a drink getting a call saying “can you pick me up from McDonald’s” isn’t much help. There’s about 12 in our city. I track her, I pick her up, and hopefully she doesn’t 🤮 in my car!
Ps she’s 21 so not technically a kid

[Anonymous]

We had a kid in our small town who was driving home after work and when he was a late his mom looked him up on life 360 and he had been in a car accident. He is paralyzed from the chest down. While you can get wrapped up in the details of the app, at its core, it’s a great app.

[Anonymous]

We just went on a boat ride. All of us were risky drives…and you can see we were obviously on the water

[Anonymous]

To the anonymous “People are crazy…” post.
You know what they say about opinions…. If it’s not for you, great. Maybe pick a different thread to follow.

[Anonymous]

I think it is insane this day and age if you do not track your child with a cell phone. Good luck to you if you. Trust them not being distracted or other drivers. Good luck being naive. Best of luck

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are crazy. If you need to track your kid this closely there are better ways to do it. Life 360 is nothing more than paid pat on the back for parents. It's a tool to make people feel like they are doing something they should be doing. It is a placebo.

What an asinine comment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are crazy. If you need to track your kid this closely there are better ways to do it. Life 360 is nothing more than paid pat on the back for parents. It's a tool to make people feel like they are doing something they should be doing. It is a placebo.

Simple. Then don’t use it. And don’t worry about what other people do if it doesn’t affect you.

[Anonymous]

Life 360 is great. My daughter was traveling overseas and her phone was stolen. She went to the local police who tracked the phone to the house of the person who stole it. She got her phone back which is unheard of in most incidents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are crazy. If you need to track your kid this closely there are better ways to do it. Life 360 is nothing more than paid pat on the back for parents. It's a tool to make people feel like they are doing something they should be doing. It is a placebo.

To whomever posted this, my son is a paramedic. We use this as a family of adults. They received a call from an adult asking the local police to go to a specific location because she noticed in the LIFE 360 that her father had not moved and it appeared he was on the side of the road. The police and paramedics arrived to find that her father had a medical incident and had passed away. It is so much more than just a tracker for children. I love this app. I work in the wireless industry and I recommend it ALL of the time!

I’m considering getting this when my kids start driving/as my mom declines. But your story makes me question if having LIFE 360 would have changed anything. I mean the guy was dead with or without it and it only changed how quickly he was found. Eventually, someone would have found him/you could have seen with that with findmy free app. Are there other reasons why you recommend it? Otherwise, I’d rather keep our information with only one platform (apple).

[Anonymous]

My teen is a pro-level mountain bike rider, and suffice it to say, has had more than one significant crash he wasn’t able to recover from by just riding out of the ‘middle of the woods’ trail he was on. Do I care where he’s riding? Not really, but it sure beats not knowing where he is if he’s laid out somewhere with a broken fill-in-the-blank. He rides safe and with others, but unfortunately kids aren’t out there saying ‘wait, let me give you my mom’s number in case I bail and am unconscious’…
Only a kid would make a comment such as yours. It’s not about ‘tracking’ you, it’s about keeping you safe.

[Anonymous]

I can tell you don’t have kids so sit this one out, weirdo. An app that has crash detection, speed monitoring, and location services if something awful happens is actually life saving. Once again, you’re a weirdo. Have a great day

Thank you for saying what all of us parents are thinking. I have 2 that just started at different colleges and my youngest just turned 16. As a widow and tackling this new milestone in our lives alone, I would probably be an absolute mess worrying about all the of them without the app. Life360 has given me that peace of mind that myself and many parents are needing. That's not even getting into how the app helped my daughter when she was being followed home from work one night by a guy who ended up being on the sexual crime registration list. So, on that note, Mr/Mrs "People are crazy": unless you are a parent, you get no say and your opinion is far from valid. But, feel free to go cry in a corner if I hurt your feelings. Moving on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are crazy. If you need to track your kid this closely there are better ways to do it. Life 360 is nothing more than paid pat on the back for parents. It's a tool to make people feel like they are doing something they should be doing. It is a placebo.

Nah. I use it to be able to go TO my child's location in the event u need to. Just today she ran out of gas in an unfamiliar area. Life360 took me straight to her.

[Anonymous]

To the "people are crazy" commenter.
Nobody asked you. Take a seat will ya.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are crazy. If you need to track your kid this closely there are better ways to do it. Life 360 is nothing more than paid pat on the back for parents. It's a tool to make people feel like they are doing something they should be doing. It is a placebo.

when my daughter is out in town and had a drink getting a call saying “can you pick me up from McDonald’s” isn’t much help. There’s about 12 in our city. I track her, I pick her up, and hopefully she doesn’t 🤮 in my car!
Ps she’s 21 so not technically a kid

Your 21-year-old with a smartphone is incapable of telling you where the McDonald’s is?

[Anonymous]

It gives you piece of mind knowing they are safe when they travel. I have a son in college and I can check without bugging him to know he is safely back in dorm room at night. He travels far with his team (we hear of lots of team bus crashes) so knowing he made it to the event without having to call him and bug him is a win for him and us. He uses it to track us so he knows when to be ready for us to arrive to pick him up.... so many good uses.