Comment on It seems Gen Z is just fine with parents knowing where they are all the time
lol@lemy.lol 8 months ago
I’m 18 and fine with my parents knowing where I am so we can coordinate mealtimes and stuff. I really don’t care for having a third party spy on me 24/7 though. We just Signal each other “I’m at xyz location, be back soon” and that’s plenty enough.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That sounds more stochastic tho, like, do they have on-demand “lets see where lol is right now even though I have zero need to know currently” or is it just like u verbally check-in
lol@lemy.lol 8 months ago
We just verbally check in and I’m totally fine with saying where I am. I believe the important thing here is trust. If, hypothetically, we were able to set up something privacy-respecting that communicated my GPS location to my parents 24/7, I wouldn’t be a fan of it. It’d feel like my parents are monitoring me because they don’t trust me to be truthful about my whereabouts.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you actually need to, u can “share” as like a thing to attach your actual GPS location in Signal, no different from sharing a pic or file or dictation
lol@lemy.lol 8 months ago
True but most of the time I don’t have GPS enabled anyway lol