Do you share your location with your teen or do you only have their location?

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. We don’t use Life 360 but that’s popular with my colleagues , is it the same basically as sharing location on iPhone?

Yes, it is basically the same.

We all share our locations. My kids are 16, 13, 11 and it is really helpful. When they go to college they can decide if they want to share or not.
If I don't want them to know where I'm going, I turn my location off.

Same. 3 teens.

I don’t think they look at my location often (usually just when waiting for a ride or similar) but they are generally welcome to do so anytime. When I don’t want them to know where I am (various reasons, nothing terrible lol), I just turn it off.

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Neither. We talk/text about where we are.

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All share. My kid can see where I am as we do a lot of activities, etc. for pick up/drop off or if I'm a few minutes late and cannot call/text.

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We share both directions.

It's helpful for knowing when someone will be home without bothering them with a call when they're driving, or tracking each other down when we've gone somewhere as a group and wanted to go separate ways for a while. Of course it's not necessary and there are other ways to find each other, but it is convenient.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. We don’t use Life 360 but that’s popular with my colleagues , is it the same basically as sharing location on iPhone?

Life 360 has notifications, vs find my friends you have to consciously check the app. My oldest had a life 360 with her freshman year friend group and deleted it bc it caused so much drama, but when the same friends moved to find my friends it wasn’t like that. The notifications just encourage constantly checking if and it tells you everywhere that person has been that day, which seems creepy. Find my friends is just real time so check it if you need to but that’s it

Life 360 also allows you to look back at where they have been. I can track back numerous days.

Surprisingly, my college son doesnt care that he is on it.

[Anonymous]

Both ways, single mom and share my location with college teens who share theirs with me.

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We all have "find my phone" on each other: mom, dad and 3 teens. It helps us run a pretty complicated household with 4 drivers, 2 cars, a zillion commitments, etc.

We give our kids a ton of freedom and don't require them to check in by text but the trade-off is that we can locate them if needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:lol, heavenly LUNCH by myself. My typo leads a little bit to the imagination!

Yeah I was like wait what’s a heavenly.. are you cheating or sneaking some sort of food and what is it

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Neither

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All four of us share our locations in our family and we also mutually share with another family. It's all about logistics.

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Neither. It’s creepy. If I need to know where a family member is, I ask. Or just wait and see if they come home in time like it’s 1980

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Anonymous wrote:Neither. It’s creepy. If I need to know where a family member is, I ask. Or just wait and see if they come home in time like it’s 1980

Yeah...thats us too. My daughter said it's not that she cares if we know but its the idea that the info could be hacked.

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I share my location with my kids. It’s useful because i constantly lose my iPhone on the house and they quickly ping it for me and play the sound from their phones. This is my main reason. I’m sure they track my location more than I track theirs. I rarely check my youngest. I check my oldest a little more now that he’s a new driver and I’m not that comfortable yet when he’s out late. This has been his first time driving in snow.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Neither. It’s creepy. If I need to know where a family member is, I ask. Or just wait and see if they come home in time like it’s 1980

Yeah...thats us too. My daughter said it's not that she cares if we know but its the idea that the info could be hacked.

But the info already exists so sharing it doesn’t make it more hackable. I can see this argument about getting 360 though. We don’t have that. My husband keeps his location off always because he doesn’t want anyone tracking him, but I usually have it on for map functions and in case I lose my phone.

[Anonymous]

We have life 360 for parents and teenagers. The teenagers use it to find each other’s locations or my location much more often than I do.