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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids do not care. My college sophomore son just realized he had been sharing his location with his entire contact list for YEARS after one of his buddies told him. He just shrugged. He didn't care.[/quote]

This!
The naysayers are coming at the topic from their frame of reference, an era that coined 'big brother is watching'. 
Meanwhile GenZ and Alphas [b]have been sharing their locations [/b]since snapchat came online, and [b]they just don't care.[/b]

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That's not the issue though. Let's agree that 20 yr. old Charlotte "doesn't care" that she's viewable by everybody with a phone.

No, the problem is that [b]Mommy [/b]can't cut the apron strings. Mommy can't let go.  Mommy has an anxiety problem and panics about school shooters, falling off cliffs, hydroplaning into the guardrail on I-95, etc.

And if Mommy is tracking her baby and stays vigilant, naturally none of these very common things will happen to baby. So she tracks. [/quote]

From what I’ve seen it’s very much the younger crowd that’s driving normalizing sharing location. I get why people would feel like parents are forcing or encouraging it but, oddly, this doesn’t appear to be the case.

Its not that younger people “don’t care”, a lot of them are used to using this technology, feel more comfortable sharing, and would prefer that friends and family have access to this info[/quote]

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