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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:09:36 PM EDT
[#1]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By zukguy: My wife and I have 360 on our phones and love it, it's nice to be able to just see how far from home they are or whatever. Has nothing to do with not trusting one another, and everything to do with making sure we're both safe. Between 360 and my Garmin app they really saved my bacon when I was off trail injured and my phone had gotten ejected. When I wasn't back to the trailhead in a timely manner it made it way easier for my wife to get SAR close to my location |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:10:40 PM EDT
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Could care less about my wife tracking me but life360 is a battery draining mofo.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:12:01 PM EDT
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Worked with a guy who's wife would track him to see if he was really at work or where he would go when hanging out with friends. She was convinced he was cheating on her, and constantly check to see where was. I remember one time he went to Dallas with some friends, she flipped her shit claiming he went to a strip club that was a few miles away from the restaurant he and his friends went to get something to eat at. She was crazy, even threatened to smash a free TV another coworker offered to give him if he brought it home. Honestly don't know why he married her, her sister was better looking, could cook, worked out, and even would bring home girls from the gym for her boyfriend.
If a woman is that crazy she needs to know where you are at all times, leave her before she goes Lorena Bobbitt on you. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:12:59 PM EDT
[#4]
I think my wife can track the teenage girls on their iPhones and they can see her. I'm on Android and we can't see each other and don't care to.
She takes a road trip to Vegas for work once or twice a year. She'll send me a tracking link in Waze to see where she's at on the drive. That's about it |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:13:46 PM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Stokes: My wife has the ability to track me, but I'm not sure she's ever used it. She's not insecure. I'm not philandering. Ironic avatar. 
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:14:14 PM EDT
[#6]
My wife and I can see each others locations using find my iPhone.
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NJ, USA
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:14:23 PM EDT
[#7]
My wife complains that I won't get an Iphone because I don't want her tracking me. She might be right. Or, I might not want to learn a different operating system. Either might be true.
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:14:39 PM EDT
[#8]
We both have ours on along with some immediate family (they help us with child care). No secrets here just sometimes easier to look and see how close one is to home than to text or whatever.
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:16:20 PM EDT
[#9]
Originally Posted By SavedByTheBlood: So it came up the other day that in one of our social circles( mostly people 30s-40 with kids the same age as ours) that my wife is the only one that isn't tracking her husband's location all the time via a phone app. Apparently all the other women have trackers on their husbands phones. My response was kind of like what the  ? I think it's just odd these people are tracking their spouses location. Does anyone else think it's weird to track your spouses location? Now the wife wants to put trackers on our phones and was put off because I said no. Heck I haven't even hooked up the smart home stuff at our new house because I'd rather flip a switch then scream at the damn Alexa to turn the light on. I also found out that my boomer parents are even doing the tracker thing.My girlfriend has it along w/ some of her family members. I've had it. Doesn't particularly bother me since where I am and where I go are pretty much an open book. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:17:16 PM EDT
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When our marriage was nearly over, I found that my ex had tracking software on my phone. She also had a keylogger in my computer and would force herself to stay awake after I had gone to sleep so she could go through my texts and emails.
Of course, she was a cheating whore, so she was desperate to find evidence of me being a cheating whore too. Oh, well. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:19:08 PM EDT
[#11]
I see a lot of "I have nothing to hide" comments here. So by that logic, if I enjoy privacy, then I must have something to hide? Fuck that noise. I grew up in the 80's and 90's, when we appreciated privacy. Well, nothing has changed in my mind. Just because the technology has changed, doesn't mean we should have to embrace it. FUCK. Go ahead and talk yourself into a world without privacy. May your chains rest lightly.
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:20:00 PM EDT
[Last Edit: whollyshite]
[#12]
Is she going to track me going to work, going home from work, taking my son to scouts, or out at my dad's feeding the cows?
Uh, oh, she might catch me at the grocery store if I'm not careful. Then things would get spicy! I'm not sure if I'm ready for that conversation... What if she finds out that I'm secretly going to Lowe's to pick up supplies for her garden? Divorce court? How much will I lose? |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:20:09 PM EDT
[#13]
I hid an AirTag in my wife's purse, she loses and forgets her phone and keys all the time.
I have this thing where I can text through a satellite. Set it up to go to my son's IPad as the primary contact. If I shoot myself on foot or fall in a mineshaft out in the desert my faith is on that little boy to save me. My wife's phone will be turned off and in her desk at work or under a pile of tennis balls in the back of her car. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:20:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By shack357: Wanna know where I am? Fucking call and ask. If I'm late getting home from work I'm probably either at a gun shop or checking one of the eagle nests I watch. During fall I might have pulled off on public hunting land. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By shack357: Originally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: Originally Posted By RatherBeLifting: Originally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: We have shared location on for everyone in the family that has a phone. Plan for the worst and all that. Any of us can get on maps and see where anyone else is at. Why would anyone be worried about their spouse being able to see where they are? If my wife said that she wants to track me then we would end up having a discussion. That said, our family shares location data with each other. I agreed to become one with her for the rest of my life. I don't really care if she knows where I am via my phone. I don't understand the guys saying it's a big deal to share location. It's a security thing, if someone doesn't show up when they are supposed to you can check on them. If we are both away from home doing our own thing and we can't get ahold of the other one, it's nice to know we can at least check to see where they are. It's not like I'm going to get scolded if she looks at it and sees me at the movies or something. Wanna know where I am? Fucking call and ask. If I'm late getting home from work I'm probably either at a gun shop or checking one of the eagle nests I watch. During fall I might have pulled off on public hunting land. Why waste the call when it's easy enough to convey that information without having to actually do anything? |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:21:34 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By whollyshite: Is she going to track me going to work, going home from work, taking my son to scouts, or out at my dad's feeding the cows? Uh, oh, she might catch me at the grocery store if I'm not careful. Then things would get spicy! What if she finds out that I'm secretly going to Lowe's to pick up supplies for her garden? Divorce court? How much will I lose? |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:21:49 PM EDT
[#16]
I think this is going to be one of those threads where we learn who is and isn't in a good relationship with their spouse.
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:21:53 PM EDT
[Last Edit: floridahunter07]
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My wife asked me to track her when she got involved in a road-rage incident after passing someone on a backroad without knowing where she was on the way home one night (still not sure why she called ME and not 911, but I digress
).I keep tabs on my Mom (much to her chagrin) because she lives close enough I could jog to her house, and she already had a heart attack a few years ago, which I had to drive her to the hospital for. Also have a couple friends that I hunt/fish with who forgot to turn it off after we went on a guy's trip to the Keys a few years back. Another buddy of mine and I share our location through Snap/Messenger because we kayak fish together somewhat often and it's damn near impossible to see a guy in a kayak, while being a guy in a kayak, with grass, mangroves, the glare of the sun, etc. in between each other. I'm not trying to "paddle over here to where I am" if he's drifting in the same direction I'm paddling.  |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:22:10 PM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By teamr2: Could care less about my wife tracking me but life360 is a battery draining mofo. THAT'S why we got rid of it! Thanks for pinging my memory. 
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:22:37 PM EDT
[#19]
It means nothing...phone can be in cupholder while the wife's in the back seat....in Minecraft. Hoe's gonna do hoe things.
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:24:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: I think this is going to be one of those threads where we learn who is and isn't in a good relationship with their spouse. That is besides the point! 
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:24:23 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DK-Prof: My wife and I can both see where the other person's phone is on Google maps. She is often in meetings all day, and sometimes has work events in the evening, and I often don't answer the phone (or forget that I turned the ringer off) - so it's a very convenient feature to be able to double-check where the person is if you cannot reach them. I don't see it as "tracking" - i see it as a useful feature. This. It's a tool in the bag. She can check to see if I've arrived safely when I travel for work. I can check if she's working late or making a stop on the way home without having to bother her with a message. We're not obsessively monitoring each other's movements. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:24:37 PM EDT
[#22]
Yeap, do it. All it does is lull the wife into a false sense of security, it's easily defeated and you can do what the hell you like while the wife thinks she outsmarted you.
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:24:44 PM EDT
[#23]
My wife and I track each other. We are constantly out running errands, picking up/dropping off kids, so it's handy. If we need something from the store and I see she is going to be driving past one, I'll ping her about it. She also loses her phone about 3x per week, so tracking lets me know where she left it. Found it at a neighbor's house one time after she left it on the roof of the car and drove off without it.
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CA, USA
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:26:37 PM EDT
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finally, one of the advantages of having a wife who's really dumb with technology
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:28:43 PM EDT
[#25]
Our whole family has it, but we don't track unless needed, or if something needs to be picked up.
Has helped a few times, once or twice when kids got turned around driving home in areas where cell coverage was spotty, helping wife with directions around traffic jams, etc. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:30:14 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ronnoc: I wouldn't want mine know how frequently I am at gun stores! I know, that gets expensive real quick. Honey, can you pick me up a sling for my shotgun while you're there? Or shells, or reloading components... Her list is long! |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:34:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MacManus: to each their own, but my wife and I choose not to do any of that tracking shit, including our kids' phones. The whole decision for us boiled down to: it frames the entire relationship from a place of distrust, and that's not the kind of relationship we want to have with each other or our kids. I'm leaning towards this. My parents and all of my siblings all track each other and all of their friends and roommates on their group plan. They're always looking at how fast my brothers are going on their motorcycles, snooping and gossipping over which sister is hanging out with who, etc. Drives me nuts. My wife travels out of state constantly with the kids and I've never once tried to look up their location. If I needed to I could log into my wife's icloud and maybe use find my iphone to find her if it was an emergency or if I couldn't get ahold of her all day or something. But it's just as likely that she's camping somewhere with no service. I needed to reach her to tell her a family member had passed away because it would affect her return date one time and I just sent a text to her phone and her friends phones with a different carrier and they eventually went on a tall enough hike that they could get service and return my text. This isn't "Taken." I don't need to know where everybody is at all the time. If you kidnap my wife or children I will find you regardless of whether or not they had their tracking turned on. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:37:05 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Aimless: My wife doesn't care but there's is a high end gun store across the highway from Wal mart Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Aimless: Originally Posted By whollyshite: Is she going to track me going to work, going home from work, taking my son to scouts, or out at my dad's feeding the cows? Uh, oh, she might catch me at the grocery store if I'm not careful. Then things would get spicy! What if she finds out that I'm secretly going to Lowe's to pick up supplies for her garden? Divorce court? How much will I lose? Just drive to the WM parking lot and leave your phone sitting on one of the light pillars. It'll be fine...
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:37:21 PM EDT
[#29]
It's weird as hell and if my wife ever suggested it we would be having a serious discussion. She either trusts me or don't and I'm not living in a trust less marriage.
OP I also know people who do this and have pissed off more than one when I said it's effing weird. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:44:36 PM EDT
[#30]
I can't imagine the insecurity involved with needing to be able to track a spouse's whereabouts at all times.
Fuck off with that shit. If it is used as an emergency feature, sure, cool. I get the utility. Kids. Ok, I can understand that aspect, too. But if he/she requires it for anytime use, that underscores some major trust issues that would cause me to have to reconsider some stuff. I have nothing to hide, but I also don't consent to warrantless searches or volunteer unnecessary info during a traffic stop. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:47:01 PM EDT
[#31]
I don’t care if my wife tracks my location.
But we have that level of trust in our relationship. 18Z50 |
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KY, USA
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:50:04 PM EDT
[#32]
I'm the past I would have said no way!
But my thinking has changed in the last year or so. I think Mutual sharing of location, passwords, etc is a good way to foster trust in a marriage. Now if she were using it to be a nag, I would definitely put my foot down. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:52:04 PM EDT
[#33]
When my son is flying I ask him to share via find my friends.
Small planes and helicopters are low enough that cell services does great for that. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:53:07 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Edge-To-Life]
[#34]
Wife and I track our locations. Not because we’re jealous, untrusting people, but we are active and go places without each other often enough that it’s a good back up should something happen.
No big deal here. If the motivation was untrustworthiness, then it’d be an issue. ETA: my wife has the option to track our daughters and son too. I asked them to allow her to since they’re in their young 20s and dating. Again, just some insurance. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:55:04 PM EDT
[#35]
Originally Posted By SavedByTheBlood: So it came up the other day that in one of our social circles( mostly people 30s-40 with kids the same age as ours) that my wife is the only one that isn’t tracking her husband’s location all the time via a phone app. Apparently all the other women have trackers on their husbands phones. My response was kind of like what the ? I think it’s just odd these people are tracking their spouses location. Does anyone else think it’s weird to track your spouses location? Now the wife wants to put trackers on our phones and was put off because I said no. Heck I haven’t even hooked up the smart home stuff at our new house because I’d rather flip a switch then scream at the damn Alexa to turn the light on. I also found out that my boomer parents are even doing the tracker thing.My wife and I have "shared location" on our phones for each other. I don't recall ever using it. I'm not sure if she has. I don't care either way. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:55:27 PM EDT
[Last Edit: wildearp]
[#36]
The pool boy will be at your house banging Sally anyway, so how is location going to help you with it, unless you want to join in for a threesome.
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:57:10 PM EDT
[#37]
My family all share locations with each other. We don't really use it often, but it's handy. It really isn't about control or trust. It's useful to see if one of my kids made it home, whether my wife is an hour away or around the corner, etc. (without having to call them)
Speaking in generalities: the government, cell phone companies and malicious people track you daily with your phone, and your phone records everything you say. They track you on your computer. There are cameras every block across the whole US that track your vehicle movements. Your own vehicle likely reports your movements. Everything you say on the phone is monitored and recorded, facial recognition cameras are everywhere and we haven't even gotten to what your employer does. And you guys choose to focus on whether someone's spouse can see their location? I think out of all of my problems in life when it comes to privacy, my wife knowing where I am isn't even on the list. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:57:11 PM EDT
[#38]
It’s pretty convenient as a safety feature. It tracks you anyway, but at least this way your loved ones can find you easily in the event of an emergency or problem.
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Posted: 3/25/2024 2:57:48 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By whollyshite: Just drive to the WM parking lot and leave your phone sitting on one of the light pillars. It'll be fine... |
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SC, USA
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Posted: 3/25/2024 3:03:03 PM EDT
[#40]
Family tracking is awesome. It isn't about trust. I know where my family is, and if anything goes off plan.
I can send the kids to unload the groceries when I get a notification that the wife is home too. (or we can get decent if the kids come home unexpectedly) The advantages are huge. If you're really worried about privacy don't carry a smartphone. |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 3/25/2024 3:05:23 PM EDT
[#41]
If I was told that I a spouse or gf wanted to track me via phone, my iPhone I would head down to the truck stop and put the phone on a semi headed for the east coast
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OH, USA
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Posted: 3/25/2024 3:07:51 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 64tinc: NSA IS RECORDING WHERE YOU GO AS WELL AS YOUR SPOUSE. JUST SAY NO TO IPHONE. I mean even if the app super duper picky swore they weren’t going to sell your tracking info to third parties or share it with authorities I’d never believe them. I’m actually very surprised the number of people on THIS board of all places would be on board with this type of surveillance, spouse or otherwise. I’m a 40 year old man and my mom asked me to share my Waze tracking so she could make sure I was alright (something my sister in law showed her) the last time I took a road trip. I refused. I get tracking kids to a certain extent but handing kids phones and all the negatives of social media and all seems like a net loss. We shouldn’t be this connected 24/7. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 3:09:15 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TomMcC: Do they or your wife justify it as some sort of safety thing? So, if something happens to you or her you know where to send the cops and EMTs. Or did they just not trust their husbands? Idk. My wife says for safety reasons but I know she’ll just use it to see where I’m at on my way home and ask me to stop at various places( like for Italian ice) because she’ll know I haven’t passed it yet. Or just start complaining about the route I took home from the store isn’t the fastest route or not the way she would go. One of her friends was over for a play date with the kids and checked on her husband and said she would hangout longer since he’s still at the golf course and then told us a story about how she freaked out and thought he died in a accident because he got stuck in traffic and his phone died so he wasn’t home on time and wasn’t answering calls. Apparently this prompted the need for location tracking. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 3:11:28 PM EDT
[#44]
Lost my phone during Sturgis for a few hours, didn't realize I didn't have it. Used my wifes phone to track where it was, and it was at the HD dealership, still in the bathroom on the TP dispenser right where I left it.
Had to wait for a guy in there to finish dropping a duece and ended up talking to the dude for 45 minutes. No one saw it, I assume because of my sweet camo phone case. Handy feature. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 3:11:34 PM EDT
[#45]
We've been able to track each other for years... The only time I look lately is to see if she is on the way home from Universal/Disney yet.
Don't know if she really ever looks at mine. My oldest daughter is the stalker though... |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 3:17:41 PM EDT
[#46]
Anyone know how to do this cross platform?
That is to say, my Apple tracking my dad’s Android and vice versa. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 3:19:07 PM EDT
[#47]
My wife and I and our 2 kids use Life360.
It's nice to be able to pull up where everyone's PHONE is... LOL!  If my wife checked my location all the time on Life360, she would get bored of seeing the same shit day after day.  -ZA |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 3/25/2024 3:22:21 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SavedByTheBlood: Idk. My wife says for safety reasons but I know she’ll just use it to see where I’m at on my way home and ask me to stop at various places( like for Italian ice) because she’ll know I haven’t passed it yet. Or just start complaining about the route I took home from the store isn’t the fastest route or not the way she would go. One of her friends was over for a play date with the kids and checked on her husband and said she would hangout longer since he’s still at the golf course and then told us a story about how she freaked out and thought he died in a accident because he got stuck in traffic and his phone died so he wasn’t home on time and wasn’t answering calls. Apparently this prompted the need for location tracking. So you get hen pecked in real time about the routes you drive? Not even the cheating aspect just complaining about every day mundanity? Again we don’t need to be this connected. Lordy. |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 3:30:46 PM EDT
[#49]
Since there is absolutely zero in life I need to hide from my wife, I do not mind that she tracks me... and I do not clear my search history.
Hell, my location is shared with 6 - 8 of my hunting buddies. |
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WI, USA
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Posted: 3/25/2024 3:34:37 PM EDT
[#50]
We use life 360.
Wife used to have a shitty commute and it gave peace of mind to see a notification she ‘arrived at work’ pop up. Especially during snow storms. Also if she tells me she’s stopping at Target after work theres a 99% chance I forget come evening. If she don't come home at her normal time and I’m thinking she’s in the ditch or a traffic pile up, I suddenly remember when I check Life360. |
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