Anonymous wrote:Wife: Larla’s tracker says she’s in a guys dorm hall? It’s 3AM!

Husband: go to sleep.

Anonymous wrote:Really sick to track college age kids this way. Unbelievable. So how, I survived without my parents knowing where I was at all times. Safety BS reason. It's all about control. Time to let go.

Anonymous wrote:"To the parents using life 360, or tracking their kids in college, how would you have felt when you were in college and your parents were tracking you?

Would you have been ok with that?"

Funny you should ask. When I was young and single living in DC and didn't know anywhere here yet, I would have loved to have had a free and easy way to let my family know where I was.

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Anonymous wrote:In our family everyone that has a phone has the free version of Life 360. That includes parents, teens and college students. My kids can see where I am and I can see where they are...if I look. Don't give me a reason to look and I won't. I have enough other things to keep me busy. But we are honest with our kids and they have figured out that having our trust is worth it. Our oldest is a junior in college and goes to school out of state. She has said she likes that we have it. She considers it a safety back up. She checks on us more than we check on her. Typically she checks to see if we are at home or if we are out so she knows if she can call home. I check our 17 year old at night since he works late and closes the building he works at. I'm not going to go to sleep until he is home so I like to know if he has left work yet. My husband and I both have it and our kids have seen that in our marriage we don't have anything to hide from each other. Since we don't have anything to hide then the app is just for safety and continence.

Our reasoning is fairly similar. We have 4 kids in college this year and 3 kids middle and high school. None of our kids in college have removed it (they have the ability to if they want). I know they still use it to check on where their dad or I are, and we know because they told us when they've called from college, "Hey Mom, I know you and Dad are at xxx but I need to know yyy."

It works for our family. If it doesn't work for yours, then that's fine, too. Indeed, if you don't like my explanation and feel you need to make a snarky remark or ask a falsely insincere question, then that says more about you than us.

This^^. I don't actively track my oldest. But they attended college in an area where I routinely get "safety alerts" 1-2/week, ranging from robbery/mugging/shootings/etc. One year, a shooting 5 blocks from campus had a bullet ricochet and hit their dorm on the 9th floor, in a study lounge my kid often studied in; when we moved them out after graduation, there was a safety alert for an attempted car jacking, that car was parked 15 ft from my kid's rental home 2 hours after graduation, and we heard gunshots during our final walk thru campus. So while I didn't track them, the younger siblings do "find my phone" as a group and if oldest did not respond to "are you safe" text, then I'd ask them to just track where older sib was. But I never did it in a creepy way---just when there was a true concern. Thankfully, 99% of time, my kid responded to my texts. Or would tell me after an incident on campus, as they knew I'd be concerned

University of Chicago?

Anonymous wrote:Our sophomore daughter still has the free version of Life360 on her phone specifically for safety. She sets up a name for her dorm and now apartment. We get an alert when she gets home. We don’t track to see where she is and don’t plan to unless she goes unheard from after a few days.

She uses it to see when we are getting close so she can meet us at her door.

Her and her friend groups all use it.

We are not interested in the features that come with the paid version.

If I wanted to track her location I would put air tags in her car and backpack, but I don’t.

There is zero wrong with it if it works for your family. I could care less what anyone else on a free anonymous message board may think.

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Anonymous wrote:We've been on Life360 for many years and I'm glad that this has never been an issue with privacy. We all see it as a security and convenience feature. My kids are now 17 and 20 and have never asked to deactivate. I travel overseas frequently and they actually are the ones who check on me. My DS has been so thoughtful about even calling or texting any of us if he sees we are driving.

Lol.. one of my kids texted me.. thought you are at work today. What are you doing at home?

Is that really necessary though, I mean I don’t want my kids worrying About what I’m doing nor do I want to worry about what they are doing. There’s something to be said about having too much information.

It's not like we are checking it all.the.time. It's just when we need to find someone for something- which isn't "too much information"
We share cars in our family so knowing where a car might be is important information.

Trust me you can live without it. If the car isn’t home, someone has it, you can always text and they will respond if not driving.

sure it's not a need. But it's a nice feature if you aren't creepy about tracking. I also prefer NOT to text my teens/college students when they are likely driving. Don't want to give them any reason to check their phone when driving. So why not use the app? You can have the ability to track your family and not be a helicopter parent

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Anonymous wrote:In our family everyone that has a phone has the free version of Life 360. That includes parents, teens and college students. My kids can see where I am and I can see where they are...if I look. Don't give me a reason to look and I won't. I have enough other things to keep me busy. But we are honest with our kids and they have figured out that having our trust is worth it. Our oldest is a junior in college and goes to school out of state. She has said she likes that we have it. She considers it a safety back up. She checks on us more than we check on her. Typically she checks to see if we are at home or if we are out so she knows if she can call home. I check our 17 year old at night since he works late and closes the building he works at. I'm not going to go to sleep until he is home so I like to know if he has left work yet. My husband and I both have it and our kids have seen that in our marriage we don't have anything to hide from each other. Since we don't have anything to hide then the app is just for safety and continence.

Our reasoning is fairly similar. We have 4 kids in college this year and 3 kids middle and high school. None of our kids in college have removed it (they have the ability to if they want). I know they still use it to check on where their dad or I are, and we know because they told us when they've called from college, "Hey Mom, I know you and Dad are at xxx but I need to know yyy."

It works for our family. If it doesn't work for yours, then that's fine, too. Indeed, if you don't like my explanation and feel you need to make a snarky remark or ask a falsely insincere question, then that says more about you than us.

This^^. I don't actively track my oldest. But they attended college in an area where I routinely get "safety alerts" 1-2/week, ranging from robbery/mugging/shootings/etc. One year, a shooting 5 blocks from campus had a bullet ricochet and hit their dorm on the 9th floor, in a study lounge my kid often studied in; when we moved them out after graduation, there was a safety alert for an attempted car jacking, that car was parked 15 ft from my kid's rental home 2 hours after graduation, and we heard gunshots during our final walk thru campus. So while I didn't track them, the younger siblings do "find my phone" as a group and if oldest did not respond to "are you safe" text, then I'd ask them to just track where older sib was. But I never did it in a creepy way---just when there was a true concern. Thankfully, 99% of time, my kid responded to my texts. Or would tell me after an incident on campus, as they knew I'd be concerned

University of Chicago?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's safe to teach you g adults that being constantly tracked is normal or healthy.

You are not living in 2022 if you believe you are not being constantly tracked!

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's safe to teach you g adults that being constantly tracked is normal or healthy.