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Not my kid. She only had it on for a specific reason and she only accepts she had to put up with it for now.
She's more than happy to bring it up as an issue from time to time.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The rising popularity of location tracking apps such as Life360 suggests that young people are increasingly happy for their parents to be able to see where they are all the time.
Other apps such as Google's Family Link and Apple's Find My are also being used by Gen Z to share their location with parents and friends while they travel to school, drive – or even during dates.
Location tracking can be turned off and on so that a user can maintain privacy when they want it, but according to a 2022 survey carried out by The Harris Poll, 16% of US adults have the setting activated all the time.
"The turbulence of Gen Z's adolescence spawned a mental health crisis that was only amplified by the pandemic, social media, and the 24-hour news cycle," said Dr Michele Borba, a educational psychologist and spokesperson for Life360.
Seventy-two percent of GenZ female respondents said they believed their physical wellbeing benefits from location sharing, per the survey.
"There's an intimacy that's intertwined with that act," Michael Sake, a senior lecturer in digital sociology at City, University of London, told The New York Times.
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There was a great Black Mirror episode about constant parental supervision.
I just text my parents if I feel like they need to know where I'm at, worked for me from middle school all the way to me living independently today.
Like a phone's location services can be turned on remotely if an emergency calls for it, but as long as I'm good with my family then the vast majority of the likelihood I'll ever need to know where my kid is while they can't communicate with me is null since like 80% of kidnappings are over custody battles or other related family disputes.