Do you track partner digitally? Post Reply

[Trackpartner]

Hi
I wanted to ask to what extent you track your partners, and family members, digitally?

We don't use Life360 but we have used FindMyPhone for the same purpose but my partner has now got an Android phone and it doesn't support that, as far as I am aware.

He is pushing back a little on us all getting 360 as a family and I was surprised how many friends use it.

Would love to know if it's very common and if you experienced any push back?

Thanks

[Icantfindit]

No. I don’t track anyone. I’m a millenial for what it’s worth! Was considering tracking youngest child (who doesn’t have a phone) but will just get them a dumb phone in year 7.

[Annette1974]

I track my 13 yr old son and he cycles to and from school. I don’t track my husband and never discussed and main reason being I don’t want to be tracked. Not because I have anything to hide but because trust is a value I’m passionate about and for me it’s linked. I can’t even cope with the ring doorbell and if husband isn’t home texts and says welcome home or nice shopping bags. I work, I’m out a lot with colleagues and clients at events etc, everything is in the shared diary so he knows he has to collect kids/sort dinner etc. and at the start of the week I verbally share my diary and whereabouts so we can sort babysitters etc if both happen to be out. But maybe people like tracking for safety reasons so maybe I’m missing something?

[catboo1]

As a family we are all on life 360. We don’t even see it as a big deal, we are just on there and find it useful. Three teenagers who are all over town and on their own holidays. We sometimes check in to see if they’re on their way home, that sort of thing. We don’t see it as snooping on them, just a handy tool.
I got the idea from other school mums when the kids came to getting phones. Pretty much every other parent at the school has life 360 and finds it as useful as we do!

[supergirl]

We have life 360 as a family.
My husband decided to not share his location which every now and again annoys me but then again i forgot about it after a few hours and the cycle start again .

I dont know if my kids can see my location I ll have to check but for them it is mandatory. If you re location isnt on, you cant go out. Now I trust them and I never check, even them they ask me why do we need it since you never check and if you need to know you call us?

I need it for my piece of mind. They text me all the time to say where they are but i dont know, sometimes i would realise no one is home, it s friday it s 8pm and have a look them remember what they had told me that morning/night before.

So to answer a previous poster, for me it is a lot less about not trusting them but a lot more about havibg a menopause brain . Seriously, for me it is safety.

[Trackpartner]

"My husband decided to not share his location which every now and again annoys me but then again i forgot about it after a few hours and the cycle start again 🤣."

Thank you everyone for replies. If I may ask, is there a reason he gives? I wonder if this is a "man" thing?

[Goldhawk]

We don't track each other or the kids
 

[supergirl]

This is the source of my annoyance and it s like we are circling around a table where no one catches no one so we re not moving on.

He doesnt want to be tracked, i dont want it for tracking him but he travels a lot, forget to put where he is in the family calendar and sometimes i need to know where he is…. He calls me back and I email his PA if I need to know something before booking or saying yes to social events etc.
So thats why i m not fully pushing for him to share his location. If I wanted to track him because I was distrusting him I have other ways but I have no reason to distrust him so we re good. But the kids, as I say, until they can pay for themselves they live in an autocracy

[Trackpartner]

Autocracy yes and love that statement.

Mine is also not from trust perspective just reducing my cognitive load.

Thanks everyone.