Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing

LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Blisterexe@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  People my age have their whole friend groups on location sharing apps like that, it’s awful.

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  • Senseless@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wtf? Is this the outcome of growing up with helicopter parents or were are those trust issues coming from?

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    • Deebster@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m assuming this is a young group, and they’ve grown up in the always-connected, always-surveilled modern world.

      I’ve met plenty of people that are surprised or even suspicious when I say that I try to avoid corporations and governments tracking me. I guess the Overton window has shifted so that people expect and accept constant surveillance.

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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        As a fairly privacy conscious person, I also expect and accept that it’s happening too. I don’t think you can be privacy conscious and not accept that. You have to be ignorant to think you can hide it all. I do my best to keep as much data out of their hands as possible though. I don’t agree with it.

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    • blargle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s nothing about trust issues- privacy is just a foreign concept to that generation. It was dead and gone before they were born. They take for granted that eveyone has their phone on them at all times and is never unreachable, so knowing where all your friends are is just a matter of convenience.

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      • Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’ve actually done a little to combat this, in my personal life (apart from ordinary privacy stuff like librewolf und Linux). I got so sick of the majority of my friends expecting me to reply to every text message within 30 minutes, and then getting extremely offended when I didn’t (simply because I don’t look at my phone that often), that I turned off read-receipts on all my messaging apps, and set my notifications to only arrive in groups at specific times of day.

        Then I made a habit of not answering unimportant messages for a few days, until I got the reputation that I pretty much don’t use my phone (I also don’t use conventional social media, and none of my friends even know I’m in lemmy). This worked like a charm! My social life much, much less stressful.

        I’ve broken the absurd contract that so many people seem to think they have a right to. My time is now my own. I can highly recommend this system! Of course, I can’t do it for work-related stuff, but it still really has reduced my stress by a lot.

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    • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Helicopter parents have got nothing to do with it.

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  • twikz@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Some friends of mine have literally hundreds of friends with their Snapchat location sharing on

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  • MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Witch your age group. Do you mind giving examples where it’s been helpful and maybe examples when it’s not been so helpful?

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    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Like 16-17, I don’t talk to the people that do that too much because they’re not the type of person I like hanging out with, so I don’t really know why they do it.

      It’s like an extension of their group chats, on snapchat.

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why, though?

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• PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Most people my age that I know have location tracking shared with SO’s. It’s considered a step in the relationship.

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  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Grim

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s be a step out of the relationship with me.

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• MrLLM@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Here’s something even worse, IMO, if you’d like to check it out.

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