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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a family we all have location sharing on our phones but no life 360. I find myself checking when college son is traveling to make sure he arrives safely to destination and to time dinner/meals when he is on his way home. Other than that I quickly discovered that using it more frequently created way too much anxiety and was a major invasion of privacy. If he is going somewhere unusual he will just tell me - I do not need to know where he is every moment of the day. That is stalking [/quote]

Yeah, your approach seems normal to me.

In the WaPo comments, the people could only seem to think “tracking means stalking” with no in between. I think one isn’t a stalker if you use it in a healthy way like you do.

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We are like this pp. We all have Life 360 and share our location on Google. This includes mom, dad and "kids". When our oldest kids graduated high school we told them they could stop sharing if they wanted. Both have kept it on. This includes our dd that just graduated college and moved across the country and an adult in the military who keeps it active when allowed by their command. Their choice. We all tend to use it if we have called and not gotten through to them at a prearranged time. So, if dd tells me to call her Sunday at 4pm and I do but she doesn't answer I might check her location and see that she is still at the grocery store and now I'm not worried. She will check my location before calling to make sure I'm not driving/at school/at the doctors office.[/quote]

Weird.[/quote]

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