and other 'phone tracking apps.
Do you share your location with your kids / SO / family / friends? Do they share theirs with you?
I ask because I (and we) do; simply for safety. I was talking to a friend about this and she told me her
teens / 20 somethings, absolutely refuse to share their locations. Maybe we’re a family of freaks, but, heaven forbid something should happen to one of us and we went missing on a mountain, I think at least there’s a chance we could be found!
Yes we do. It comes in very handy when someone is driving and can’t answer a text asking where they are. Quick check of the app answers that questions easily.
My kids have done that when I’ve taken longer to get someplace than expected in bad weather. We also just used it today. We were about a mile down the road from school and d22 had me pull over to see if she left her phone at the school (she did). Was quicker and easier than searching the backpack in panic.
The downside is when you kid doesn’t tell you he’s going camping and his phone dies. You spend all weekend worried he’s buried in some forest. Don’t ask how I know. 
@yourmomma I won’t ask you if you don’t ask me!
I have it on my daughters, not to spy but just for safety. My 23 year old had a second job and she would have to leave very early. The homeless in the bay area can become aggressive and I wanted to know she was safe. My youngest is off campus and the parking is not well lit. The youngest didn’t want to turn it on but she had no choice.
This happened in Boston recently (see article link). The young woman’s sister had the app, and the police used that to pinpoint the location where she had been taken.
No, not on my kids or H (yet). DIL is showing me how to do it for H. He has habits of leaving it in the truck, not hearing it, etc. After living through his cardiac arrests last summer, I’d feel better knowing the location if he’s late. 99% change he’s at WalMart or the grocery, but it would ease my mind.
D is moving to Seattle after graduation. Maybe she’ll agree to it
I ask both D and S to turn it on when traveling back and forth to school (even if they’re passengers). They are welcome to turn it off once I know they’ve arrived safely.
It’s really useful when meeting someplace. We are in PA and D is in SC. Sometimes she gets a ride most of the way home and I pick her up in MD. Knowing where she is along the route lets me kill time at a rest stop or Target if I’m ahead of schedule.
Our son is a serious cyclist. He will ride to work 2-3 times a week. Over mountain roads. He shares his location with me and his GF. It’s a safety thing.
We told our kids they had to use this feature when we got them cell phones. That was years ago and we’re all pretty blase about it now. Sometimes it’s inaccurate in funny ways, other times its very helpful in finding where you left your phone.
DH and I have location sharing turned on. I also share my location with the kids but don’t have visibility on theirs. When DIL’s parents were visiting here we shared with each other as well.
I thought Facebook only lets location sharing stay on an hour at a time? Is there a setting to leave it on until I turn it off? (We use Google currently, but one of my sons only uses Facebook, and when we’re trying to catch up with him I have to keep turning my location sharing back on.)
I actually had my daughter ask me to track her while she was in a late night uber and she felt the driver seemed a little sketchy. So I watched and refreshed until she was dropped at her dorm. She wasn’t actually scared, just wanted an extra dose of caution.
I don’t do this and never did. I think I’d be checking it all the time and make myself crazy.
We have Life 360. DD kept it on her phone when she went to school. She uses it to check up on us when we are traveling too.
She and her roommates have their own group for safety reasons.
I have a close friend who is single and travels. She and I have FMF and keep tabs on each other’s locations, especially when she is driving alone from the mid-Atlantic to Florida.
Yes. All of my kids (even my 2 adult kids) are on my phone plan and if they want to get their own they can. I use it infrequently, but like knowing I have it when I need it. I would have no problem with them using it to find me.
No. My Ds are adults and I don’t feel the need to have to know where they are. The chances of any of them ever being kidnapped or being lost on a mountain are slim. And if either of those things happen, chances are good that the kidnapper would have disabled the phone or the phone would have died or been without a signal on a mountain. 
I use it when picking someone up at the airport. I also use it when I’m hiking alone.
No, because I refuse to allow my location to be tracked by the phone company. The trade off is that I don’t know where my children are at all times even though all are on my phone plan. If my D is walking somewhere at night (she lives in Manhattan), she calls me and tells me where she is. Even whern she traveled cross-country by car alone, we didn’t track her. She was required to stop driving for the night by 7 and to call us when she arrived at her destination She was using one of my cars so I felt I could impose that rule… She had a network of friends and family that she stayed with and spent only about 2 nights at hotels. She was told not to stay on the ground floor and to put a desk or something in front of the door.
One of my friends tracks her kids so obsessively I swear she knows when they use the toilet. Her son and mine attend the same school. Once I was on the phone with my son and my friend texted that her son was at a certain location. My son had told me he was at the same place. Then he said, oh I see X, he’s here too. I said, I guess his mom’s location tracker works.
Lol, something similar told me when kiddo was in Spain or, another time, out of state- and I’d been with her all weekend. Maybe that’s been improved.
This isn’t about nosey, imo. You don’t need to be obsessive.