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My partner and I are practically married and if one wants to know where the other is, we just ask. shrugs We have friends who do the "Find My Friends" thing an

My partner and I are practically married and if one wants to know where the other is, we just ask. shrugs We have friends who do the "Find My Friends" thing and we actually find the whole concept pretty creepy.

jws 11y ago
I find location checking to be more civilized. The question being asked isn't "where are you?", it's somethings else like "should I pop home for lunch?" If my wife is out, then I don't need to interrupt her with a question. If she is home then I'll check. Similarly, if she is driving, I'll wait until she is someplace appropriate for interruptions before making contact. (Or the ever dicey "should I save the last few bites of my ice cream for you?" I've timed the ice cream so if she arrives at the usual time it works out, but if she is delayed then it will melt. No one wants to know they missed ice cream because they were detained.) Realistically "are you home?" and "are you driving?" are the only two predicates I care about, but I can answer that from location. After having location checking, the idea of initiating non-time sensitive communication without checking to see if it is in an appropriate location seems about as rude as asking a question of someone who is in mid sentence on a telephone.
jethro_tell 11y ago
We use 'find my friends' because we don't expect the other person to be able to reply quickly to a text. It's not only polite between us, it's polite to the people we are interacting with IRL. This means I can put my phone in my pocket and focus on the people I'm with and my partner can do the same. There is no, why didn't you answer my text, I've been trying to figure out if I should eat or wait. Edit: I find it creepy when couples are separated and they spend the whole time texting each other or looking at their phones waiting for a text.

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My partner and I are practically married and if one wants to know where the other is, we just ask. shrugs We have friends who do the "Find My Friends" thing an

by SmellyGeekBoy 11y ago

jws 11y ago
I find location checking to be more civilized. The question being asked isn't "where are you?", it's somethings else like "should I pop home for lunch?" If my wife is out, then I don't need to interrupt her with a question. If she is home then I'll check. Similarly, if she is driving, I'll wait until she is someplace appropriate for interruptions before making contact. (Or the ever dicey "should I save the last few bites of my ice cream for you?" I've timed the ice cream so if she arrives at the usual time it works out, but if she is delayed then it will melt. No one wants to know they missed ice cream because they were detained.) Realistically "are you home?" and "are you driving?" are the only two predicates I care about, but I can answer that from location. After having location checking, the idea of initiating non-time sensitive communication without checking to see if it is in an appropriate location seems about as rude as asking a question of someone who is in mid sentence on a telephone.
jethro_tell 11y ago
We use 'find my friends' because we don't expect the other person to be able to reply quickly to a text. It's not only polite between us, it's polite to the people we are interacting with IRL. This means I can put my phone in my pocket and focus on the people I'm with and my partner can do the same. There is no, why didn't you answer my text, I've been trying to figure out if I should eat or wait. Edit: I find it creepy when couples are separated and they spend the whole time texting each other or looking at their phones waiting for a text.