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Life360 app
Life360 app







Being able to track his location via an app on his phone only gives me the illusion of control. If he’s injured away from home, I won’t be the first on the scene. If the car he’s in is speeding, I can’t stop it. ” And if he doesn’t want to leave his phone behind, there are TikTok videos that explain how teens can change their phone settings and trick the app into freezing their location. Except now he’ll be without a phone if he ends up in trouble or needs to text our secret code, which means, “Come pick me up now. There’s nothing stopping my son from leaving his phone where he’s supposed to be and going where he wants to be instead. Teenagers put themselves at risk of a different kind of danger by scheming ways to circumvent the tracking features on their phones. The vast majority of children who go missing have run away, in which case I’m sure they’ve long since ditched their phones. But according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), child abductions by strangers are incredibly rare. There’s a sense that knowing my son’s exact location will take away the anxiety that he might disappear one day, never to return. I imagine millions of other 40-somethings are latching on to apps like Life360 to quell the fears of our youth. Stranger danger lectures included pictures of white vans and instructions to run from anyone halfway unfamiliar. I grew up seeing photos of kids on milk cartons. I didn’t delete the app right then because I clung to the excuse that we were all safer with it. Mutual trust isn’t built on power and control. I stopped in my tracks when I asked him one night where he was going, and he responded with a cold, “Just open Life360.” He’d never said anything about being monitored, but it was clear he wasn’t a fan. I want him to confide in me, not because surveillance apps force him to, but because he wants me to know what’s going on in his life. I couldn’t talk to them about things that happened because I’d have to tell the truth. I hid from them and shut them out of my world. I was never at risk for serious harm and I never missed curfew.īut after a few months of monitoring my son, it dawned on me that I hadn’t trusted my parents to allow me to go where I wanted. Most of my antics were good old rebellious teenage fun.

life360 app

I had a pager my senior year, but I could pull over at any payphone and call back without caller ID ratting me out. I didn’t want my parents to know I was at a party or out driving in downtown Houston where I had no business being. As a teenager, I often lied about where I was and who I was with. “He won’t get away with anything,” I said to myself as I delved deeper into the app’s tracking features. No one could kidnap him! My mind fast-forwarded to his high school years. My son would never be lost or out of reach. Within days, I was addicted to watching the tiny blue dot that represented my child move across the map.

life360 app

I could watch how fast he was traveling and I got notifications whenever he went somewhere. The app let me track where my son was with satellite detail. The app bills itself as a “platform for today’s busy families, bringing them closer together by helping them better know, communicate with, and protect the people they care about most.”

life360 app

Within days of our purchase, I bought a subscription to Life360 and installed the app on his phone. And, if I’m honest, his constant pleas for an iPhone had worn us down. He spends many afternoons at the nearby park or playing at friends’ houses, and I was tired of not being able to reach him when I wanted him to come home. My husband and I handed my son a cell phone not long after he turned 11.









Life360 app