Joint facebook activities.

The same people who start off their wedding anniversary post with "it hasn't always been easy but we made it work" or "we have our ups & downs just like every other couple".

Which is code for cheating & beating.

One of the channels I watch on YouTube is about a O/O truck driver.  He mentioned that his mom tracks him so she knows when he's home. I'm sure it gives mom a little piece of mind but it's kinda funny that mom tracks a middle aged son.

My dogs recognize the sound that Life360 makes when someone arrives at home and get all excited to greet whomever it is.

My wife wanted to do that after we got married last year. Hard no. I don’t care where you go and you shouldn’t care where I go.

She tracks her 26 yo daughter. Not happening to me.

I don’t give her a reason to track me and vice versa.

I complain about my wife's phone usage sometimes, and my kids usage more often.  But having "Find My" on for family members doesn't even raise a blip on my radar.

Some people will lie to their spouses about guns they bought in one thread, and in the next thread think they are "independent men" because their wife's phone doesn't have their location.  Sheesh.

Wife and kid and half her side of the family do it..with life 360.
I've had my wife pull it up to see if the kid was speeding....our daughter tracks the wife.

No one tracks me. Wife knows I'm paranoid as it is lol

Lol wow. Kind of sad to assume things or even insinuate i don't talk to her multiple times a day.

Regardless, it’s a missed opportunity.

Lol let it go dude. Nothing was missed except the joke that went way over your head in that post

I know a wife who does that, her husband still cheats lol.

Not sure what some of you think keeping track of your spouse looks like? I imagine you imagining it looks something like an aircraft carrier CIC, watching every move.
I check my "find my" app like maybe once a month. Going back to my example of say, if my wife takes off for the city while I stay and watch the shop, and 10 minutes after she leaves, the emergency response vehicles go out screaming in that direction. I can check it, see quick that she's still moving. I don't keep the app open and watch it every minute she's gone.
I didn't have to call her and distract her from driving, and I get the immediate relief that she's ok in the event she doesn't answer. Didn't have to have an unnecessary dramatic/emotional conversation for the fuck of it. We work and live together. We talk to each other all day otherwise.
I doubt my wife ever checks on me outside of being held up at the job site and I'm not back when expected. And it's not that she thinks I'm out fucking around, I'm always with an employee or her dad who helps out around here. So she can make dinner plans. Or, perhaps I'm stuck in the ditch on some gravel road with no cell service if my location is "stuck" somewhere elsewhere than the address that's in our work calendar.
I got by just fine before tracking, and before cell phones in general. Makes life a little easier having that tool in your tool bag - for me.
If a guy doesn't want to use it, fine. But people who use it I'm guessing are not the kinds of people who have trust issues with their spouse anyways as what's assumed. It would be too easy to leave the phone somewhere or put it in airplane mode if your intention was to do some secret fucking around. Probably not here in my AO, if I left the bar with some girl, the entire town would know about it before I got to her place and got my pants unzipped. If she wanted to fuck around on me, the same. Not in the least worried about that.
And not using it because "surveillance state" is pants on head retarded, sir.

You should see how many security cameras I have on my house.  I 100% embrace my own surveillance state.  The government is going to do what they are going to do anyway, my phone location isn't going to make or break any action they would take against me.  They would just contact the cell company if they needed, have their own StingRay deployed, track the IP of my computer, track the GPS in my vehicle...etc.  I don't embrace it but isn't like there is much that can be done about that aspect of it either.

I would subscribe to your newsletter

I don't really care one way or the other, with the stupid shit that I do and places that I go, I'm cool with it.  My sat phone gives the exact location and aerial view when messages are sent.

It's for my safety is how I look at it, not that she even ever requested it.

Apple "Find My" allows you to track each other. My wife and I had that set up, it can be useful.

Used it for that several times.

I'm 100% to each there own.  It's your life do whatever you want.  That doesn't mean I won't have an opinion on it one way or another though.  In my situation I don't care where my wife goes or what she is doing.  But at the same time if I ever got a call/text of "I need help" and location couldn't be communicated then I would want a way to find her.  The opposite is true, I'm working on a project house with a bad roof or using equipment by myself.  Multiple times I have told her if I'm not back by X time come check on me.  She will use Google maps and tell me later that she could see me moving between the house and backyard and knew I was ok.  

Also my prior relationships have taught me there are no guarantees.  No matter what you think, feel, or say it does not affect what someone else thinks, feels or does.  You might think there is no reason to distrust your partner but that has no connection to reality.  Someone can also distrust their partner and think they are tracking all their moves but that still won't be a guarantee that nothing is going on and the person living in fear of distrust is still not going to trust their partner.  

Like I responded to the OP, technology isn't going to cause or fix any problems.  Those problems exist outside of that.  It might make things a bit better or worse but since there are no guarantees the problems will persist.  

Yeah, imagine a future where someone is mourning the loss of their beloved spouse and thinking “I would give anything to be able to track their location just one more time”. I mean, I guess they could still be tracked, but it’s not like their location is ever going to change.

Now that I think about it, that could be a future business opportunity. The deceased’s phone could be placed in their headstone along with a small solar panel to keep it charged. That way the surviving spouse could always track their location and fondly recall of all the times that they tracked their locations throughout their marriage. There could even be app to facilitate it. Maybe the NSA would even release limited data so that some or all of the places that the deceased went could be tracked retroactively. Nothing says “I love you and I care about you” quite like tracking their location.

It’s joke, guys. Laugh a little.

We don't and we would never consider it.

"For emergencies" was once the point of getting everyone in the family a cell phone to begin with. Whatever did we do before then?

Helicopter parents never stop helicoptering.

If you did you might recognize that there are ways to use technology such that it is not useful to the provider.

I bet none of the angry boomers in this thread even know what a StingRay is. lol

He called it tracking and spying, but it most healthy families it's the modern equivalent of leaving a note. It's not like the whole family is actively checking regularly to try to catch someone being bad.

I just checked to see if my wife had left the office yet so I know when to start boiling the pasta.

I've done well with compartmentalizing. My phone is either at my desk in the basement or at the charging station upstairs when I'm home. Or it goes to the shop with me so I don't miss any calls while working on stuff.

My laptop stays at my desk and I do my browsing and work stuff on that. The living room is for family and watching movies or shows, and the bedroom is for sleeping, reading and fornicating.

I can't really get my wife on board with it, she's on her phone a lot, but I refuse to be hooked on the thing. I even keep it in the truck when working, which I shouldn't sometimes because I sometimes have a lot of calls to deal with each day, but I hate having it on my pocket all the time.

Most people I know that track their spouse, is primarily for coordinating pickups/drop offs for kids activities. They can easily look and see if their spouse is home and taking their daughter to dance class, or if he's still stuck at their sons soccer game and obviously not going to make it in time.

I bet when the first phone came out and was available in homes, the old people threw a hissy fit because it was an invasion of their privacy.

It's like when you continuously accuse a child of doing something they aren't doing.  It makes them want to actually do it.

If you're already being treated like a criminal, you might as well reap the rewards from the crime right.

Meh. In my family I track everyone. Not to check up, but the kids and wife, if overdue, I’ll check.
Just Dad stuff.
So, they can track me. I’m not going anywhere I shouldn’t (where is that?) And kids know when I’m close.

Although it wasn't directed at me...  As a boomer, your comment is straight out of the "Rules for Radicals" leftist playbook.  When you have lost the argument, revert to insults to force your opponent to defend themselves, rather than admitting defeat.  Doesn't matter which side you are on, as soon as insults are thrown, you have admitted you lost.

His screenname is literally Boomer, boomer.

Mines on, GF has it in case I get abducted or worse, I dont care really doesnt bother me.
Either Im at work or with her so my chances of doing shady shit are next to nil anyway.

It’s the manner in which you respond. Suggesting someone’s wife has their balls in a purse…..

Dude you admitted in an  earlier post your wife stalks your location. That’s not a healthy habit. Sorry not opening the door for my wife to potentially develop unhealthy habits like obsessing over my location which is why I said no to the tracking.

Garmin in reach mini for when I go into the woods.