If everyone consents and you trust the service, I guess that’s fine.
I just personally don’t see the benefit. My area has a really low crime rate, my kids don’t have phones and don’t go anywhere on their own anyway (they hang out w/ neighbors or we drive whem somewhere), and my SO and I just go between work and home and rarely anywhere else. If we have a unique schedule, we let each other know.
The only time I think I’d want it is if I’m doing something potentially risky, like going on a hike on my own, which I almost never do. That’s pretty much it.
When my kids get phones, I plan to follow the same policy. If they go somewhere, they need to let us know where they’re going, who a backup contact is (i.e. if they lose their phone or it dies), and when they’ll be home. I don’t need to know exactly where they are if I trust them to inform me if plans change.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I ride motorcycles. So I just leave it on by default because my wife worries when I go out. Rightly so. Cagers are fucking morons.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Obviously each situation is different, but I’m very much on the side of trusting kids vs having some kind of leash. Sure, my kids would probably be fine w/ the caveat that I can see whatever they’re doing if that means they get a phone, but to me, it also shows that I don’t trust them, and that could mean they won’t come to me when something I can’t track happens. I personally value that two-way trust a lot more than whatever short-term benefits tracking gives me, and I go out of my way to tell my kids what I could do so they know how much I trust them.
So far it has worked out, but my kids aren’t teenagers yet (close), so we’ll see what happens once their social circle broadens a bit.