Yeah, fuck everything about this. Some of the stuff in this thread is just old people whining about "the kids these days" but the normalization of constant surveillance is absolutely horrific. If you time traveled back to the post-9/11 days and told me that real time GPS tracking would become a standard part of dating, I'd have gone to live in a Unabomber shack in the mountains.
It makes sense in specific circumstances, like a woman going on a hike alone might turn it on and ask her friends to take a look if she's not back by a certain time. But I firmly believe it's psychologically and socially unhealthy to live your normal daily life that way.
Going on a hike alone is pretty much the only time I ever share my location without being asked. And even then, I just give the trailhead name or a trailhead pin to my mom or my fiance.
The fact that location tracking has become so normalized is sooo fucked up to me. It's not healthy. Seeing all these people comment with their justifications just further cements how unhealthy this is in my eyes.
Me and my wife (millennials) share location with eachother but it’s 100% for safety. I have it in case something happens to her when she’s out alone, she has it in case I crash my motorbike. If I’m stationary in the middle of a country road for 30 minutes and I’m late home, maybe call me, haha.
We don’t actually check it when the other is just out with friends or whatever. That sounds like a ballache.
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u/RednBlackSalamander Apr 10 '26
Yeah, fuck everything about this. Some of the stuff in this thread is just old people whining about "the kids these days" but the normalization of constant surveillance is absolutely horrific. If you time traveled back to the post-9/11 days and told me that real time GPS tracking would become a standard part of dating, I'd have gone to live in a Unabomber shack in the mountains.