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You have a tracker on your 15 year old son? Isn't that extreme?

• Melting_Harps 4y ago
  > Isn't that extreme? What do you think smart phones are? That's exactly what they're optimized for, in addition to mass distraction and aimless and feckless doom scrolling for dopamine that is. I can't post because i triggered the algo: > My wife and I use Apple's "Find My" feature to keep tabs on when each other will be home. Makes it easy to time dinner so it's hot for everyone. The Silicon Valley TV series was great not just because it called out the Valley's BS tropes and made fun of it's absurdity, but because Judge really had the best material write itself: this is a prime example of what I could see an episode's plot being based on. A (smart) phone being used not to actually call each other, but as the spy device that it is. Sadly, in it's latter seasons it went into a territory it's writers neither understood or articulated well but appealed to the lowest common denominator: Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
  • Cipater 4y ago
    Billions of people have smartphones. How many of them use them to keep track of their loved one's movements?
    • greedo 4y ago
      My wife and I use Apple's "Find My" feature to keep tabs on when each other will be home. Makes it easy to time dinner so it's hot for everyone.
    • brewdad 4y ago
      I personally know of at least 2 families. My guess would be millions.
  • watwut 4y ago
    Phone does not imply detailed tracking by parent at all.
• malkia 4y ago
  We all agreed to have it on. It's helpful if he's with friends, and I need to pick him up, I don't need to call him. Or the opposite. He can turn it off anytime too.